The resignation of Íñigo Errejón last week and the complaints from women for alleged sexual assaults that point to him It has generated a social and political debate of the first order. A scandal that surrounds a person who on more than one occasion has spoken out in defense of victims of abuse and who was a well-known champion of feminism. Pablo Iglesias himself has denied on RTVE that he was surprised by the accusations of sexist behavior and sexual harassment against his former party colleague, “this was talked about a year ago,” he said. Likewise, the testimonies that are coming to light and the letter from Rita Maestre bring a series of relevant issues to the table.
Maestre has pointed out: «I am now discovering that some of the episodes of misogynistic behavior and violence reported by the victims happened when the aggressor was still my partner. A normal looking person, a “good boyfriend”, “He was at the same time a misogynist who returned home normally after attacking a 20-year-old woman in a hotel.” And it is not new, because feminism has taught us a long time ago that the aggressors who are usually presented as exceptional monstrous beings are a father, a brother, a co-worker or your ex-partner.
And he adds: «Evidently, it is impossible for each of the people who have shared parts of our lives with him (in whatever area) not to think about how we could not see that we were facing someone with those multiple faces, how we could blind ourselves to that manipulation level. Because that is what it is who sustains a network of attacks and humiliations of this magnitude in his daily life: a manipulator».
Wolf in sheep’s clothing: “We can’t even trust those who look good”
Given the questions that remain open on this topic, put the focus on Errejón as an alleged aggressor and what his psychological profile is can give us some crucial clues. For this we have Lara Ferreiro, a psychologist specializing in emotional addiction, self-esteem, a partner who gives ABC a possible psychological profile of Errejón. But first of all it is necessary to clarify that it is important to take into account the presumption of innocence.
«We cannot assure that Errejón is guilty of everything he is accused of until the opposite is proven.. A forensic expert report would have to be made to be 100% sure of his psychological profile, but with the information we have, We can presumably talk about a series of features,” says Ferreiro.
Ferreiro highlights that we could say that Errejón looks like a wolf in sheep’s clothing; behind that angelic and beardless face, an alleged sexual offender hides. “It is striking how we can no longer trust even those who look good.”
“This leads us to think that he may be a possible psychopath playing a character”
If we carefully analyze his resignation statement, according to Ferreiro, we can see that there is no way to take it. «He uses a convoluted language that «only he knows what it means, perhaps to demonstrate intellectual superiority that exempts him from being considered an aggressor. Avoiding all your responsibilities and not asking for forgiveness at any time,” he says.
In his resignation letter, Errejón says he has reached the limit of contradiction between the character and the person. «This leads us to think that it may be a possible psychopath who plays a character,” says the psychologist.
dark triad of personality
Errejón also mentions that his time in politics and fame have taken their toll on him. Ferreiro says that this attempt to blame the fame that has corrupted him means being able to talk about an alleged Erostratus syndrome. «It consists of addiction to fame, even he himself assures that his values and personality have been corrupted by fame and power. And we could also talk about Hubris syndromewhich in this case, is about addiction to power and is a subtype of tnarcissistic personality disorder. This addiction to power can lead him to feel enlarged and superior to the women with whom he has had relationships,” says the specialist.
«The psychopathy in the Congress of Deputies scares me very much»
One could even speak of the dark triad of personality, that is, narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy without empathy. “In fact, he himself admits in his statement that he has become “emancipated from empathy.” A way of saying that he has become a complete narcissistic psychopath,” says Ferreiro.
It should be noted that for the psychologist it is nothing new to find this type of psychopathic profiles within the world of politicssince there are studies that suggest that between 4% and 6% of high-level political leaders could have psychopathic traits. Politics is making a pact with your enemies or betraying those in your own party, but all it does is magnify that, andThe germ is already there. «Comprehensive psychopathy is present, this develops from 0 to 24 years. It is counteracted if you have a solid ceiling of values. However, psychopathy in the Congress of Deputies scares me very much,” says Ferreiro.
“He hides behind feminist circles”
The way to understand this is, for the expert, that integrated psychopaths have a social mask, they are absolutely charming and behave like the perfect boyfriends, just as Rita Maestre said, but underneath that, they have a very dark personality. «When a person has a double face, they tend to be dissociated. He has two very different behaviors between his private and public sphere, and that makes the character eat the person,” says Ferreiro.
Some ideas that could be transferred to your political journey. For this reason, Ferreiro establishes that “he hides behind feminist circles, giving an image of a man who is an ally of the movement to take advantage of women’s trust and be able to attack and abuse them. Because a woman, within a feminist circle, is not going to think that her male colleagues are going to attack her. In this way, many can let their guard down, and even doubt themselves after having suffered an attackbecause they may come to think that “how is it possible that my feminist partner does this to me.”
In line with this idea is the complaint that was made by Elisa Mouliaá against Sumar’s spokesperson, which stated that “while he touched her in the area of her breasts and buttocks. The Zapeando collaborator told him that she was “very uncomfortable” and ended up telling him: “Only yes means yes, It seems incredible that this is happening to me with you».
“It’s not a ‘mental illness’, it’s machismo”
Errejón also speaks in his statement that being on the front line of politics generates “a toxic subjectivity that in the case of men, patriarchy multiplies, with co-workers…”. Deep down, he is confessing the facts, he is admitting that he has engaged in deplorable behavior, but does not assume responsibilities. This is the same as when someone is drunk, commits a crime and blames it on alcohol,” the expert explains.
When the false justification is mental health
In this area, Ferreiro is very clear saying that using the card of mental health is very dangerous because she intends for that to be a facelift or a mitigation to try to make someone sad. And remember that no one escapes the newspaper archive by recovering a tweet that in 2021 Errejón himself wrote: “It’s not a ‘mental illness’, it’s machismo.”
Furthermore, Errejón uses the discourse of his mental health problem as a throwing weapon. Basically what he seeks is to play the victim so that we think that it was not he who controlled his actions, but rather that sexual disorder that he allegedly suffers from. Frivolizing what is very serious.
There is no banality when one of the testimonies pointing to Errejón collected by journalist Cristina Fallarás from the newspaper ‘Público.es’ spoke about how “complex” it is to have sexual relations with someone who, in such an “intimate act”, “He makes the same face he would make if he were beating you.”
Ferreiro at the same time clarifies that we could also be talking here about Errejón representing un profile of an insecure man who uses force against women to impose his delusions of grandeur and carry out his eccentric sexual fantasies, since it has already come to light that Errejón had been in therapy for addiction to sex and some substances for months.
«Although it may seem somewhat extravagant, in Spain there are almost 3 million people addicted to sex. A person addicted to sex He is not a sexual aggressor, because a sex addict always acts with consent, while for a sexual aggressor, what excites him is the abuse of power over women and non-consent – that is the perverse and sadistic point that generates adrenaline. ».
«On the one hand there is the showcase woman. Someone who you consider is on your level or who suits you well. And then, there are the others that are things to prey on.”
These types of people use what they are doing therapy to cleanse their image. “In the end you are giving them weapons to continue manipulating,” says Ferreiro. Furthermore, Errejón supposedly made the gaslight, gaslightinga psychological abuse technique that makes you question your own reality, making the victim believe that the problem lies within them.
Consequences on victims and their ex-partners
Ferreiro details that his victims could develop a disorder of post-traumatic stress from trauma What it causes you to have experienced a sexual assault coming from a profile that is supposed to protect women, is a double abuse, “and that could also include his ex-girlfriend Rita Maestre. These women have to go through six phases, among them are shock, anger, fear of being socially judged. It is important not to blame the victims for not having been able to report because in many cases, it takes them months and even years to be able to manage everything they have experienced.
When asked why there are women with whom Errejón was a “good boyfriend”, as Rita Maestre says, while he harassed others, Ferreiro details that on the one hand there is the showcase woman, the facadethe one who helps you maintain your profile, the mother of your children or your girlfriend. Someone who you consider is on your level or who suits you well. And then, There are the others that are things to be preyed upon. This is called reification. In fact, he liked very pornographic sex, very abusive, precisely for that reason, because they were like things. He didn’t even love Rita, she was just a social instrument,” he says.
Who falls into their networks
Ferreiro gives the example of Mouliaá. She idolized him, someone who fought for feminism and with whom she felt safe. «The problem is that the aggressor is fun at first, a born trickster. and then, come the rules and submission. Some victims may have low self-esteem or have the fan effect, the “oh my God, he noticed me,” she says. But what must be clear, according to Ferreiro, and he says it in his book ‘Addicted to an Asshole’, is that any woman can fall.
«I have seen successful women being victims of these types of people. In the end, when you fall in love with the character, with what Errejón represented, you secrete oxytocin, which is the bonding hormone. And then that makes you blind and deaf», he points out.
For Ferreiro, there are blind spots in the entire problem that has arisen with Errejón. The others did know or if they heard rumors, why did they not report it by being more forceful in their actions or who else has the same behavior. «This has only just begun. There is already talk of Political ‘Me Too’. We are facing something much bigger. In fact, the journalist who published it says that it has many things from many parties». But the point is to focus on the aggressor.
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