ABSTRACT
Cultural scripting consists of introjected thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behaviors that are taken in from a multitude of sources. Robert is dealing with a cultural script. Robert is gay, and at a neopsychic ego level has adapted his sexual orientation quite comfortably into his ongoing personality and sense of self. He also, however, experiences some negative attitudes toward homosexuality, attitudes that cause him discomfort. Robert creates a symbolic source, a composite of the many people whose behaviors contributed to his internalized rejection of his gay orientation. He begins with the image of a specific person from his past. Lance's attitudes and values have become ego alien; they are no longer a part of Robert's own self. There are, and always will be, people like Lance in the world, but Robert no longer needs to experience a part of himself allied with them.
