THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

Love was absent from S's satanic I cannot love or trust my fellow Satanists I Suspicious.
relationships, and the unity between because they wish to control and dominate
cult members derived only from me, but we are held together by the goal of
their shared goal of destroying destroying a common enemy.
Christianity.
Fearful. Adversaries. 131
S's satanic relationships created
interpersonal ties based on the
fantasy that sexual intercourse
results in parts of oneself being
transferred and adhering to ones'
partners.
Sex with other Satanists results in parts ofme
existing in them, and parts ofthem existing in
me, thereby joining us together. [Introjective
and projective fantasies create the belief that
psychic aspects are concretely transferred and
located in the other during sexual intercourse].
Receptacle for IAnxiety,
others' psychic ambivalence
contents.
Palpable
internal
presences.
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Although S initially feared the high This powerful figure has her own hidden IFearless, power-I Greed,
priestess because of her superior frailties. I don't have to fear her because she hungry. aggressIOn.
power, competition for power and can be conquered.
the persistent search for others'
weaknesses resulted in him losing
his fear.
Vulnerable I 133
possessor of
desired power.
Strength of character determines
cult success in the anxietyprovoking
environment of having to
defend one's own power, and usurp
the power ofothers.
I have to be strong and never expose ISuspicious,
weakness, because others will see my hostile.
vulnerability and exploit it to steal my power.
[Others will attack and plunder my insides if
they see that they can].
Paranoid
anxiety.
Hostile
plunderers.
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S's magical power, whereby he used
demons to instill fear in others,
made him arrogant and provided the
incentive to remain in the cult.
By means of my demonic powers I have IArrogant,
power over others and can instill fear in them. powerful.
[Identification with destructive internal
objects expressed in the omnipotent fantasy of
controlling others by magical means].
Triumph.
Subservient,
fearful.
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