The present paper focuses on the phenomenon of “screen confessions” (the term was chosen to allude to Freud's “screen memories”): perpetrators' voluntary confessional texts which create false presentation of a coherent link between the speakers and their deeds—while in fact using multiple sophisticated mechanisms in order to undermine this link. The main hypothesis is that screen confessions are created through the perpetrator's use of a double language which dissociates between overt and hidden contents, and which rewrites factual and emotional history alike. The duplicity of this language is expressed through the massive use of screening mechanisms, such as the mechanical use of military or official rhetoric; the heavy use of passive rather than active constructions; the creation of a false moral hierarchy and a false causality, and the displacement of the position of the victim to the perpetrator him or herself. Seven hundred and ten testimonies of Israeli army veterans from the archive of “Breaking the Silence” (an organization of veteran combatants who have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories) were qualitatively analyzed by two researchers, focusing on the use of psycho‐linguistic defense mechanisms. The analysis validated, as demonstrated through a close reading of five testimonial vignettes, the effectiveness of deploying psycho‐linguistic‐defense mechanisms in differentiating between screen confessions versus transformative confessions.

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屏幕坦白：“打破沉默”的测试案例

本文着重于“屏幕供词”现象（该词被用来暗示弗洛伊德的“屏幕记忆”）：犯罪者的自愿供词文本造假了演讲者及其行为之间连贯联系的虚假陈述。使用多种复杂的机制来破坏此链接。主要假设是，屏幕供词是通过犯罪者使用双重语言创建的，该双重语言在公开内容和隐藏内容之间进行分离，并且重写了事实和情感历史。这种语言的双重性是通过大量使用筛选机制来表达的，例如机械地使用军事或官方言论。大量使用被动而非主动结构；虚假的道德等级制度和虚假的因果关系的产生，并将受害者的位置转移给施暴者他或她自己。对“打破沉默”档案（一个由退伍军人组成的组织，将以色列公众暴露于被占领领土的日常生活的事实）中的710名以色列退伍军人的证词进行了定性分析。两位研究人员专注于心理语言防御机制的使用。通过仔细阅读五个证言，该分析证实了采用心理语言防御机制来区分屏幕自白和变革性自白的有效性。对“打破沉默”档案（一个由退伍军人组成的组织，将以色列公众暴露于被占领领土的日常生活的事实）中的710名以色列退伍军人的证词进行了定性分析。两位研究人员专注于心理语言防御机制的使用。通过仔细阅读五个证言，该分析证实了采用心理语言防御机制来区分屏幕自白和变革性自白的有效性。通过“打破沉默”档案（一个由资深战斗人员组成的组织，他们亲自承担了以色列公众对被占领领土日常生活的现实）的档案，对710名以色列退伍军人的证词进行了定性分析。两位研究人员专注于心理语言防御机制的使用。通过仔细阅读五个证言，该分析证实了采用心理语言防御机制来区分屏幕自白和变革性自白的有效性。着重于心理语言防御机制的使用。通过仔细阅读五个证言，该分析证实了采用心理语言防御机制来区分屏幕自白和变革性自白的有效性。着重于心理语言防御机制的使用。通过仔细阅读五个证言，该分析证实了采用心理语言防御机制来区分屏幕自白和变革性自白的有效性。