| Publications > Power | Title: | Feeling Like a Fraud Part Three: Finding Authentic Ways of Coming Into Conflict | | Author(s): | Peggy McIntosh | | Abstract: | This talk, a sequel to Feeling Like a Fraud: Part One and Feeling Like a Fraud: Part Two, tracks the authors search for ways of coming into conflict which do not bring up feelings of fraudulence. It analyzes her exploration of what feel like more authentic methods of approaching contentious interactions. One key discovery is that she feels most authentic fighting the idea that life is conflict, i.e. life is war. Another is that intense class, gender, and race strife go on in her psyche, which serves as a micro-battlefield for macro-systems in the society. The analysis is placed in context of a theoretical model of double and conflicting structures within the psyche and the society, in which over-rewarded, vertically-oriented elements are contrasted with laterally-oriented, affiliative, informal elements of a home sense. Invention of less fraudulent forms for coming into traditional conflict is made easier by taking the complex and pluralistic home-sense seriously. If the self is plural, then conflict may nearly always be a simplification of it. | | Order # | Price | Pub. Date | Preview | | WP 90 | $10 | 2000 |  | JBMTI/Stone Center publications are available in electronic files by going to the Wellesley Centers For Women web site: www.wcwonline.org
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