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THE SYCOTIC MIASM

George Loukas


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The word sycosis derives from the word

syco (Greek word for fig). Hanhemann

used this word because the sycotic person

tends to make warts that may reach to the

point of looking like a fig. In other words

sycosis means verrucose .


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Lets begin with the sycotic persons mental

sphere. The sycotic person has an inclination to

show off. A sycotic woman walks in the street

and cuts a dash. Heads turn around when she

walks by and that is what she seeks,

consciously or even unconsciously. A sycoticman walks with a swagger and puffs himself

up to show his muscles. Expensive clothes

bought at trendy shops also have to so withsycosis. Buying an expensive car (though it is

not necessary for professional use) is also

related to sycosis.


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Medicine and trendy professions, such as

journalist, lawyer, politician, have much appeal

for sycotic persons. The shinny shingle on thedoor, the glamorous surface, the worldwide

recognition appeal to the young student. A

sycotic scientist thinks of himself to be an

exceptional case in his field, even though he is

mediocre. He calls himself an expert or an adept

in his field. He likes to put many titles on his

shingle. As a patient he prefers distinguishedand highly qualified doctors, who sound like

omniscient to him. He has a mistrust of doctors

who are ordinary and straight.


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This inclination to show off marks every

sycotic behavior and most times it is

unconscious. When he is sad, for instance,

the way he cries, the way he sighs draws

everybodys attention and sympathy towards

him. The way a sycotic person gets angry isalso flamboyant. The person screams,

shouts, makes a great fuss. It is some kind of

puffing up that draws other peoplesattention. When the sycotic person is happy,

he roars with laughter and also makes a

great fuss.


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Another major feature of the sycotic persons

mental sphere is a tendency to keep things to

oneself. In general the notion of keepingoverweighs that of giving. Therefore the

sycotic person is not keen on giving. The

sycotic teacher is rather unwilling to give hisknowledge, he is not the kind of person to

communicate knowledge. He will try and keep

it to himself. He may even try and mislead

other people so long and he does not give it.

Most times there is an ambivalence about

giving-keeping.


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As for emotions he keeps them to himselftoo. Although he himself wants to be the

focus f general attention, he does not open

his heart to his partner when he is in

trouble. It is the case of a mother who gives

her child the cold shoulder. There is no

emotion in her caress, which is rather stiff.


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The sycotic lover is reluctant to convey emotion.

Passion is not among his features. Sycosis is

secret. The sycotic person tends to keepeverything secret, out of sight. This may happen

either consciously or unconsciously. For

instance, he may keep his aims secret, he actsdeviously, he does not reveal much about

himself, he hides his real intentions. He also

hides his real feelings. When he is sad, he doesnot look so sad as the circumstances require.

Thats why he seems to be strong in other

peoples eyes. He may dislike someone and still

smile at him and be very friendly with him.


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When the sycotic person gives, he certainly

means to take later on. Avarice is an

expression of the need to keep things to

oneself. An avaricious person is stingy, hedoes not give. Collecting objects is a sycotic

manifestation too.


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In general, when a sycotic person responds

to a stimulation, his reaction is in the rightdirection but has a reduced intensity. This is

due to the fact that he keeps things to

himself, he absorbs only a part of intensityof the given stimulation. This shows that the

person is strong in appearance only. For

instance, when he is subjected to a sad

stimulation, he does not seem to be sad.


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In fact, however, this sort of strength is

weakness and this is due to the fact that this

kind of person has a limited width of response.

He shows inflexibility in the way of

functioning, that is to say. This stiffness

coexists with a tendency to have control. Thesycotic person wants to have control over

other people and over himself as well. He

keeps every expression, every emotion of hisunder control. He cannot stand the

spontaneity of emotions and acts.


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Pedantry is another feature of sycotic

miasm. The housewife who gets annoyed at

finding a speck of dust on the furniture, who

sweeps and mops the floor three times a day,

who forbids her husband to enter the house

with his shoes on, is an example of sycotic

pedantry.


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In general the sycotic person is prim and

proper, orderly, he concerns himself toomuch with schedule, so much that he lays

more weight on the schedule that on essential

things. He wants all the objects on his desk tobe in alignment, he wants his car to be

perfectly clean, he sees that its color does not

fade, he protects it against the rain and the

wind, he worries about small details.


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Religiosity is another example of sycotic

pedantry. A religionist focuses his attention not

on philosophy and on the deeper meaning ofreligion but on the ritual. It is very important to

him that the sign of the cross is made three

times, not two, that the fast is observed forexactly forty days, he is very strict on the

observance of the schedule. Religiosity, along

with the other features of sycotic miasm, weretypical of the Scribes and Pharisees, who always

abided by the letter of the law but could not

understand what purpose the existence of the

law served in the first place.


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The sycotic scientist tends to classify the

phenomena. Classifications are sycotic

expressions. Excessive adherence toclassifying systems, such as DSM or ICDX is

sycosis. The notion of specialty and

overspecialization is a sycotic feature too.The sycotic person focuses his attention on

details but misses the general picture.

Therefore we can see the evolution of

medicine and of science in general and how

important it is to have a complete and in

depth cure of scientists so that science may

evolve.


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In general the sycotic person is dogmatic andabsolute. To him it is all black or white. He is

inflexible. He is not receptive to new ideas. He

rejects a new idea without even elaborating it.

Reclassifications in the system of knowledgeand values fill him with anxiety. He wants

knowledge and ideas to be well classified

inside his head. He wants everything to besettled and fixed. That causes him a need for

control.


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He wants to keep control of everything. The

complexity and multiformity of nature,scare him as well as the perpetual motion of

universe. Consequently of all this

multiformity he picks out what he can

classify, what he can put in order. That is

usually only the surface of phenomena.

Once he has classified it, he will try to keep

it steady and fixed. He allows only smallchanges, which he can control.


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In general, in sycosis there is tendency to

exaggeration psoric features. For instance, the

psoric person has a vague and unconsciousfeeling of inferiority. When, however the

person thinks that he is not capable of

anything, that he is not good-looking, that heis not intelligent, that he is lacking in

everything, then we notice an excessive

expression of the feeling of inferiority and it is

the case of sycotic miasm. Moreover the initial

anxiety becomes in excessive expression, fear

of death and of diseases.


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Respect for the rules that characterizes the

psoric person, becomes in sycosis excessivepedantry regarding the observance of the law.

Repression, which is, as already said, a primary

feature of psoric miasm and which has to doalso with its creation, becomes in sycosis even

more excessive and more intense, so intense

that it obstructs processes, such as freeassociation. The process of psychoanalysis isalso obstructed and thus occurs resistance.


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In physical sphere hyperplasies and

hypertrophies prevail. As previously said,

sycosis owes its name to this feature. Sycosisis also characterized by an increase in

secretions. For instance, gonorrhea is a

sycotic manifestation. Sycotic eczema showsprofuse effusion of fluids. At other times we

notice a retention of fluids in the organism.

Inflammation is a major feature of sycosis as

well as formation of cysts. The feeling of

fragility is also remarkable, the person does

not stand being touched or even approached.

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