character and service, what good is to be accomplished by digging out of the past and exploiting weaknesses, which perhaps a generous contemporary public forgave and subdued? (Mormon Apostle S.L. Richards in 1955, emphasis added). R.L. Moore749 aptly links appearing as “being psychologically fucked up” with “sociopathic narcissism driving [one's] fucked up-ness” that often remains undetected.
Finally, if there’s no way out, and there’s nothing we can do to stave off the inevitable, we will activate the ultimate emergency system: the dorsal vagal complex (DVC). This system reaches down below the diaphragm to the stomach, kidneys, and intestines and drastically reduces metabolism throughout the body. Heart rate plunges (we feel our heart “drop”), we can’t breathe, and our gut stops working or empties (literally “scaring the shit out of” us). This is the point at which we disengage, collapse, and freeze. -...-Collapse and disengagement are controlled by the DVC, an evolutionarily ancient part of the parasympathetic nervous system that is associated with digestive symptoms like diarrhea and nausea. (Van Der Kolk 2014:70). Vomiting is a disgust reaction. A disgusting emotional situation often elicits the feeling of nausea. We say, "That makes me sick to my stomach" or "I can't stomach that" or "That's hard to swallow". -...-By vomiting one literally bathes in shame. (Bradshaw 1988:102). A rogue reporter hounds Dr. D.B. Banner ( The Incredible Hulk, 197882), who would love to be just left alone with his predicament. Stallone's 1989 Lock
Up transposes the Valjean motif behind bars; meek and redeemed inmate about to be paroled is persecuted by rogue prison manager he had slighted in the past. Van Damme's 1990 Lionheart portrays a noble deserter who wants to help his family while police is after him; the movie ends when policemen finally recognize his 749
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