Influencing apparatus
Influencing apparatus ( English technical term influencing machine ) called the psychoanalyst Victor Tausk 1919 psychotic illness in which a person believes no apparent reason, influencing a machine and steer his thoughts and actions.
According to Tausk, people who suffer from an influencing apparatus do not understand the functioning of modern technology at all or only inadequately, which is why these innovations appear suspicious and unpredictable to them. They then develop conspiracy theories according to which scientists and technicians use monstrous machines to control their thoughts. Tausk was of the opinion that all evil that was previously ascribed to the devil is instead projected onto a diabolical machine in this phenomenon.
properties
Tausk compiled the statements of his patients into a list of properties that are ascribed to the classical influencing apparatus: The functionality of the device cannot be precisely specified; mostly there is diffuse reference to waves, rays or currents, physical phenomena that were anything but familiar to the average citizen in 1919. The influencing apparatus creates or removes thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and sexual arousal. It is always served by a group of people from whom the person concerned feels threatened or persecuted ("you" as the unnamed author of a conspiracy).
swell
Main source: British Council Germany: The Air Loom: The air loom. ( Memento from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ V. Tausk: About the influencing apparatus in schizophrenia. Not seen.
- ↑ media aesthetics: influencing apparatus . A paradiscursive montage. October 30, 2006