Emotional trust inertia simplifies reactions but blocks mature engagement with its terms

Evidence

The emotional bond given to trust is, as it were, a continuation of complexity reduction, internally simplifying reaction through an inertia in the expectations of the truster. This is not the only way of responding adequately to trust, and perhaps not the most mature. As against this, anyone who does not merely let himself be caught up and hemmed in by trust emotionally, but takes part in arranging the relationship of trust and what its subjects and its limitations are, is likely to recognize sooner the advantages of a joint reduction of complexity. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 246

Categorization

• XREF: Stevens’s deference to Darlington’s institution is the ‘caught up and hemmed in emotionally’ path, exactly what the reader’s thesis needs. — connects to: Freud’s cathetic inertia in some patients correlates with psychic elasticity in psychoanalysis — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 4589