Vergleich Lacs mit anderen
Lacs and Natriums.x
good at caring for others, whilst being unable
to care for himself.
The Lac child cannot bear to simply lose the mother.
Instead, he seeks to win her love.
Lac cases typically report that they tried as
children to please their mother, and as adults they continue to try. They were
‘good’ children, just like Nat-m., helpful and responsible. Very often they
were the eldest child, helping mother by shouldering some of her
responsibilities towards the other children. They thus became like little
adults. Later, they continue to take responsibility for other people, and feel
guilty when they don’t.
In this sense Lac cases have unclear boundaries.
Both types are prone to suffer great indignation at injustice, and both
types tend to be community-minded.
Differences between Lacs and Ammoniums.
1st the Lac issues of abandonment
and feeling unsupported are not prominent in Ammonium cases.
2nd Ammoniums tend to have clearer
boundaries than Lacs, both in terms of knowing when
to say ‘No,’ and in terms of psychic empathy.
3rd Ammoniums do not try to please
like Lacs do. And finally, the ambivalence seen in
many Lac cases, born of a deep psychic split, is not seen in Ammonium
cases.
is known for its activist inclinations.
Here the similarity with Lac is less. Causticum’s,
advocacy is not personal. In other words, he is not fighting for victims
because he felt a victim himself.
2nd Secondly, Causticum tends to be
detached most of the time, without being split in a pathological sense. Lac, on
the other hand, is very emotional, but may become detached as a result of a pathological
split.
Lac remedies and Natriums.x and Ignatia.x
One important difference is the strength of
personal boundaries. Strong in Natriums and Ign.x. weak in Lac cases.
Again postulating the origins of these weak
boundaries as arising from the early experience of failure to bond adequately
to the mother. A newborn child has no
sense of boundaries. Through bonding to the
mother, it gradually learns that it is not its mother; that she is a separate
entity. In the process, the child learns that it
has boundaries, which separate it from the
world, and from other people.
When bonding to the mother is weak, these lessons are not learned so
distinctly. The child continues to try to merge with the mother, and hence
differentiation is not completed. This results in indistinct personal
boundaries in Lac individuals (as it does in Boron.x
individuals, who seem to go through similar dynamics at birth).
Weakness of personal boundaries expresses
itself in several ways in Lac cases.
1st Lac people are extremely
empathetic. They actually feel the feelings of other people, through a kind of
psychic osmosis.
In this sense they resemble Phosphorus and Carcinosinum.x
1st Like the latter, many Lac people become healers and
therapists, and they struggle to keep their feelings separate from their
clients.
2nd Secondly, Lac people are co-dependent, which means they
cannot separate their own responsibilities from those of others. As a result
they tend to take on too many responsibilities. And when they fail to fullfill a responsibility that was not theirs in the first
place, they feel guilty.
Similarity between Carcinosinum.x and Lac cases.
In particular Carcinosinum can appear very
close to Lac felinum.
The principal issue for Carcinosinum is the search
for Self,
For Lacs it is the search for connection to
others.