Cognitive Dissonance & Newspeak
Cognitive dissonance.
Two concepts that are interesting to relate are "cognitive dissonance" (Festinger, L. originally) and "doublethink". These are each other's opposites. The former denotes the discomfort that occurs when you have two conflicting opinions at the same time.The theory says that you then try to reinterpret or adjust them together to reduce the discomfort. The latter suggests that two conflicting views are managed to have two conflicting views in the mind at the same time without causing any internal conflict . Does this remind you of hypocrisy or psychopathy?
Farias and Granqvist (2007) highlight the cognitive dissonance concept to describe the NA supporter's concerns – which have great similarities about the child with disorganized attachment – to be torn between two if not philosophical, so in any case practically difficult to reconcile ideas, namely that one is, on the one hand, taken care of by a well-meaning "cosmos", that everything happens for the best, on the other hand that it is entirely up to oneself to create a happy destiny.Psychoanalysis a fruitful theory here?
"Newspeak."
Orwell