#. A secondary injunction conﬂicting with the ﬁrst at a mor… - Gregory Bateson

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#. A secondary injunction conﬂicting with the ﬁrst at a more abstract level, and like the ﬁrst enforced by punishments or signals which threaten survival... Verbalization of the secondary injunction may, there-fore, include a wide variety of forms; for example, "Do not see this as punishment"; "Do not see me as the punishing agent"; "Do not submit to my prohibitions"; and so on.

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Gregory Bateson (May 9, 1904 – July 4, 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He was married to Margaret Mead.

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