Icosa Canon

trap

Emotional Merging

trap.emotional-mergingICOSA-TRP-0016clinical register

Definition

A trap where bond-fusion replaces own-affect — unable to feel from the inside, the person imports emotion through merger with another's feeling, and the imported affect never registers as owned. The self lives on borrowed affect it cannot recognize as its own.

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Orthography

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ordinary

Usage

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A broad basin, an onset and propagation cascade, a reusable trap type, or an escape or intervention address.
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Naming a self-reinforcing loop anchored by a capacity and a domain at one harmony.

Routed children

These escapes and interventions have no authored names. Each is identified by this parent and its route cell.

Escapes (4)

Interventions (6)

Relationships and lifecycle

Parents