Translated by Claude – Spike
Harm is sometimes relative and physical, but psychological and unconscious harm is traumatic and retrospective. While the subject is considering others’ emotional feelings in what is called empathy, empathy itself is a false illusion. All presupposed premises originate from the subject’s own perspective. “I” have never truly existed in that dimension of sadness; it’s more likely that the sadness is fabricated by “me.” The subject projects like a mirror, transferring their own trauma onto the object, violently erasing it and replacing it with their own trauma. True empathy can only be achieved through this dimension – “I” don’t want to hurt them, “I” don’t want to make them uncomfortable or sad. They are actually the already traumatized “me.” “I” will let the trauma resurface here. The subject’s narcissistic emotions reach their peak at this moment. Everything is about “me,” but “I” push it all onto them. I atone for their sadness, I do it for myself.