This is another subject clients consult us about and we have had the experience and ability to help them.
The ego defence of displacement plays a role in scapegoating, in which uncomfortable feelings such as anger frustration envy and guilt are displaced and projected onto another, often the more vulnerable, person or group. The scapegoated target is then persecuted, providing the person doing the scapegoating not only with a conduit for his uncomfortable feelings, but also with pleasurable feelings of piety and self-righteous indignation. The creation of a villain necessarily implies that of a hero, even if both are purely fictional.
Some would say that Satan the Devil was used as a Scapegoat for sins and interestingly they also depict his image as half man half goat.
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Psychology Today.
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Laetitia Latham Jones 
An excellent blog about an important issue. There are so many people who have been cast into this role who have huge potential. Others have found it expedient to attempt to extinguish that potential through probable envy or fear of something different and innovative. To watch folk discover their potential is as magical as watching a flower slowly unfold and blossom. 🙂
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Yes Cassandra that is true. Acquiring this knowledge is empowering for all who have undergone this treatment. Thank you for your comment. 😊 x
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