This is a category I just realized describes me. There was a funny skit on the old (mid-1970s) television show, \u201cMonty Python’s Flying Circus\u201d with the punch line for an actor who freaked out if one said \u201cmattress\u201d in his presence. His supervisor explained: "Other than that, he’s perfectly normal." I have adopted this sentence for a blog title some years’ back, or maybe the title of my autobiography.<\/p>\n
For the borderline healthy, cultivating the arts to express the crazy, mad parts is "sublimation" \u2014a healthy defense mechanism. I do it all the time. You know, I’m crazy, a little, and I admit it; but I sublimate my really crazy impulses (which I have, as well as other so-called-normal humans), so I play with them. For example, I have a villainous alter ego: \u201cDoctor\u201d (if you please) Snidely Whiplash, editor of the well-known (well, not so very well-known) Journal of Punitive Psychiatry<\/em> (motto: I’ll give you what to cry for"). One of my cartoon characters, Dr. Whiplash looks just like a typical melodrama villain.<\/p>\n Indeed, I have a goodly number of alter egos. Some day our great-grandchilren will make fun of people who are \u201conly\u201d one personality. Multiple personality ORDER will be \u201cnormal.\u201d It\u2019s a way of sublimating and balancing our personalities. We\u2019re all borderline healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a category I just realized describes me. There was a funny skit on the old (mid-1970s) television show, \u201cMonty Python’s Flying Circus\u201d with the punch line for an actor who freaked out if one said \u201cmattress\u201d in his presence. His supervisor explained: "Other than that, he’s perfectly normal." I have adopted this sentence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}