The Psychopath is Born and the Sociopath is Made.

                                         Justin Trudeau confused Lenín Moreno's liar with a comedian friend of his father's.

 Sociopaths and psychopaths 

By Jaime Richart: I prefer that the reader consult so many references to the sociopathic and psychopathic concepts on the internet, to the task of "copy and paste" ... 

Because I prefer to start, not from its definitions but from the two historical theses of scope, on the condition and nature of the human being of the Enlightenment, which in my opinion are an awakening of qualitative intelligence. Two theories derived from the work of two consecrated and universal thinkers: Hobbes and Rousseau. Hobbes argues that man is a wolf to man. Rousseau maintains that man is good by nature and it is society that makes him ill. Today everything is resolved, or believes to be resolved, through knowledge mechanisms that end in artificial intelligence and elucidate eternal questions that human beings will never stop asking, although it certainly will not go beyond conjecture to move on to a conclusive answer. If the human being is good from the moment he is born and society perverts him; if he is born bad and society civilizes or tames him; whether or not there is life after death are three good examples of what I mean. However, the temptation to take as valid the answer of a machine or of a supposed super-wisdom is there, in connection with so many other artificial problems posed by the highly complex Western society to which society itself insists on giving a categorical answer. Societies as complex as they are close to connecting with other dimensions or other worlds ... 

For its part, psychiatry, or rather, some psychiatrists, with the audacity that the "specialist" is accustomed to, rule that psychopathy is congenital and sociopathy is acquired. It is a daring way of solving questions that, in line with what has been said before, belong - and always will be - to the field of philosophy that they dare to supplant in this matter. Because human nature sinks its roots in the soma, yes, but above all in the unfathomable sea of ​​the soul, of the spirit, of the ectoplasm or whatever we want to call what is outside the traffic of science, be it pure or applied. Everything that is not an intellectual proposition in this regard falls into the domain of pretentiousness and hubris: excess of pride and arrogance. And as a proposition fruit of the prescience of humans of a superior intellect, the aforementioned Rousseau and Hobbes, it is very possible that they are closer to the truth with them. The only thing that perhaps corresponds to us centuries later is in turn to conjecture whether, as in so many and so many abstractions, "the truth" will not be much closer to the harmonic combination of these two opposing theories. I'm certainly not interested in the revelation about it that all the world's revealing algorithms can eventually elucidate. 

 But I don't want the previous digression to stray me too far from what I propose to talk about: sociopaths and psychopaths ... Well, according to the most widespread psychiatry, the distinction between sociopathy and psychopathy is subtle, due to features that we could call formal. Both have in common, according to this discipline, that they are more than a pathology, a deep "disorder" of the personality. Psychopathy is congenital and has no cure; it is hopelessly so. The sociopath can be corrected through psychotherapy and medications.

  "The Psychopath is Born and the Sociopath is Made"

                                         Could a police officer be a psychopath?

However, beyond the psychiatric specialty, my proposition is that the distinction resides in one or more other circumstances than the one that the psychopath is born and the sociopath is made. In any case, the social system, the economic system, the ideology and the mentality that have prevailed for centuries in the Western Hemisphere have gradually become the breeding ground for psychopaths and sociopaths. They are your generators. Until now, until industrialism and robotization, they did not exist or were not counted as "disorders" of the generally rudimentary personality. The king, the nobility, and bourgeois society were psychopaths too, barely restrained by religion and its hierarchs. While those who would have been sociopaths today were "sick", and as such they were treated in asylums or Health Homes. This example will illustrate the matter. Michel Foucault, French philosopher, historian, sociologist and psychologist of the early twentieth century, in his work "The history of infamous men" collects various cases of interned in past centuries in those houses of "crazy": For example, Mathurin de Milan , entered the Hospital of Charenton on August 31, 1707: “His madness always consisted in hiding from his family, in leading a dark life in the country, having lawsuits, lending with usury and lost funds, in wandering his poor mind around unknown routes, and in believing himself capable of occupying the best jobs ”. This Mathurin would have been a normal person today or perhaps an unknown sociopath ...

 Of course today, as psychiatry classifies it, while the sociopath responds to the morality of the socially dominated and for that reason it is largely explained that he transgresses social norms and rebels against them and the establishment, the psychopath responds to the morality of the social dominator, since it belongs to parcels of the dominant society; dominant because of his wealth or accommodation or because of the personal power inherent in his role in power establishments. It is in this other area where the class struggle also takes place, even if it is buried. To my understanding, the sociopath does not blame himself for his personal failure and his inability to integrate successfully into the system. He blames the system for it and reacts against the system, disregarding its rules. Who is neither psychopath nor sociopath, the ordinary submissive individual is the one defined by Byung Chul Han: “he who for the failure in the neoliberal performance society makes himself responsible and shames himself, instead of putting society in doubt or to the system. This is the special intelligence of the neoliberal regime. By directing aggressiveness towards himself, the exploited does not become a revolutionary but a depressive ”. The sociopath, the antisocial, does not get depressed, he confronts his way of the system and assumes the consequences of his behavior. The prisons are full of sociopaths. But the prisons for psychopaths, not because of their personality disorder but because of their crimes, are much less occupied than they deserve, armies of individuals lacking the feeling of guilt and remorse for the damage they inflict on society as a whole with their callousness. This paradox is not contemplated, as we know, by that psychiatry integrated into the system. What psychiatry ignores because sociology is not its concern, is that the effort of the sociopath, which often ends in failure, is exploited by the psychopath. And when, without having gone through frustrating experiences but the prior lack of faith in the goodness and justice of the system leads the individual, generally young, to abandon the effort, he is punished by the system and often also with special delight by the system. psychopath. 

As de Prada says, “the analysis of character traits and the description of the behavior patterns typical of psychopathy confront us with a terrifying reality. Are they not, perhaps, the character traits and the models of conduct that our age has consecrated? Psychopaths operate in different areas of social life, but in general they are specialized in taking advantage of others in different ways. Sometimes they directly exploit their victims socially, economically, sexually and emotionally, stealing all their psychic energy, and in his relationship with his partner the psychopath presents himself as the victim of his victims, making use of lies ”. But the worst, I say, due to the magnitude of the consequences in society as a whole, of those six million psychopaths that the professor at the University of Alcalá de Henares Iñaki Piñuel says there are in Spain, among "narcissists, climbers, Machiavellians or wicked ”, the majority have to be in charge of public, political, economic, banking, business, police and religious responsibilities. Sociopaths belong, either to the lumpen, or to dissatisfied or enemies of a society, for some reasons or for others, simply unbearable ... Sociopaths are all of us who live psychologically in unstable equilibrium in a disjointed society throughout its history, in a poorly evolved society in comparison with the nations that are integrated into the system, largely perverted by those six million psychopaths ... that century after century are being renewed in Spain.