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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have wondered often about what else may have been in 'his' boxes.
Please take a minute to read this CNN article:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/opinions/trump-presidential-records-act-zelizer/index.html
Mementos? Did someone check the silverware? What else may have been in those boxes?
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I have wondered often about what else may have been in 'his' boxes. (Original Post)
Paper Roses
Feb 2022
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gab13by13
(21,440 posts)1. All of the documents have yet to be returned.
There are more than 15 boxes. The National Archives should just do its own investigation.
tanyev
(42,636 posts)2. I googled "narcissists keep trophies" and found this:
Malignant Self Love by Dr. Sam Vaknin
Accumulators and Narcissistic Handles
Still, not all narcissists are like this. Accumulator narcissists take to objects and memorabilia, to voices and tunes, to sights and to works of art - as reminders of their past glory and of their potential future grandeur. Many narcissists collect proofs and trophies of their sexual prowess, dramatic talent, past wealth, or intellectual achievements. They file them away almost compulsively. These are the "Narcissistic Handles".
The Narcissistic Handle operates through the mechanism of narcissistic branding. An example: objects, which belonged to former lovers, are "stamped" by them and become their full-fledged representations. They are fetishized. By interacting with these objects, the narcissist recreates the Narcissistic-Supply-rich situation, within which the objects were introduced into his life in the first place. This is magical thinking. Some clairvoyants claim to be able to extract all the information regarding the present, past and future states of the owner of an object they hold. It is as though the object, the memory, or the sound carry the narcissist back to where and when Narcissistic Supply was abundant.
This powerful combination of branding and evidencing is what gives rise to the "Narcissistic Contagion". This is the ability of the narcissist to objectify people and to anthropomorphesize objects in order to derive the maximum Narcissistic Supply from them. The narcissist is a pathogen. He transforms his human and non-human environments alike.
On the one hand, he invests as much affection and emotions in an inanimate object as healthier people do in human beings. On the other hand, he transforms people around him into functions, or objects.
https://samvak.tripod.com/journal53.html
Accumulators and Narcissistic Handles
Still, not all narcissists are like this. Accumulator narcissists take to objects and memorabilia, to voices and tunes, to sights and to works of art - as reminders of their past glory and of their potential future grandeur. Many narcissists collect proofs and trophies of their sexual prowess, dramatic talent, past wealth, or intellectual achievements. They file them away almost compulsively. These are the "Narcissistic Handles".
The Narcissistic Handle operates through the mechanism of narcissistic branding. An example: objects, which belonged to former lovers, are "stamped" by them and become their full-fledged representations. They are fetishized. By interacting with these objects, the narcissist recreates the Narcissistic-Supply-rich situation, within which the objects were introduced into his life in the first place. This is magical thinking. Some clairvoyants claim to be able to extract all the information regarding the present, past and future states of the owner of an object they hold. It is as though the object, the memory, or the sound carry the narcissist back to where and when Narcissistic Supply was abundant.
This powerful combination of branding and evidencing is what gives rise to the "Narcissistic Contagion". This is the ability of the narcissist to objectify people and to anthropomorphesize objects in order to derive the maximum Narcissistic Supply from them. The narcissist is a pathogen. He transforms his human and non-human environments alike.
On the one hand, he invests as much affection and emotions in an inanimate object as healthier people do in human beings. On the other hand, he transforms people around him into functions, or objects.
https://samvak.tripod.com/journal53.html
Botany
(70,614 posts)3. Don't ask here just check with Putin
TFG would have sold or given any information that he could to Vlad.
usonian
(9,916 posts)4. Just some boxes of calling cards.