Tag: scapegoating

Scapegoating is the assignment of disproportionate blame, dysfunction, conflict, or responsibility to one person so that a family, group, institution, or authority can preserve its preferred narrative, avoid accountability, or maintain internal stability.

Within the Captivity Lens, scapegoating becomes especially consequential when the targeted person’s testimony, boundaries, distress, or differentiation are used as evidence that she is the problem while the wider architecture remains unexamined.

  • Captivity Logic

    How a closed threat system becomes compulsory from within. Captivity Logic describes what can happen when a person must continually live inside a consequential threat system without usable reprieve while agency, voice, autonomy, independent reality, or differentiation cannot be exercised…

  • Closed System Captivity

    When threat leaves no usable place outside the system Captivity is not defined by distress alone. It is not established by the presence of family dysfunction, emotional immaturity, narcissistic traits, conflict, trauma, rigid authority, or even serious relational harm alone.…

  • Captivity Across Systems: Shared Mechanics Without Forced Equivalence

    Captivity can occur in very different environments. Families. Intimate relationships. Faith communities. Clinical care. Workplaces. Institutions. High-control groups. Systems of exploitation. The contexts are not interchangeable. The actors are not interchangeable. The severity is not automatically equivalent. The legal and…