Similar to a fictive, a factive is an introject based on a real person, either historical or currently living. It is another word for a factual introject.
There are many reasons for a system to have a factive, from finding a person they know comforting and heroic, to internalizing abuse they experienced at the hands of someone with power over them and introjecting the abuser in the brain's attempt to protect itself, or a myriad of other reasons. Introjects of both outside individuals and fictional characters have been acknowledged in research and books on DID [1] such as The Haunted Self, and a paper by Richard P. Kluft [2] on treating complex Dissociative Identity Disorder, known at the time of the research as Multiple Personality Disorder.
It is important to acknowledge that similar to fictives, factives are not exactly their source and can differ greatly from their source person. Factives who are abuser introjects have the capacity to and frequently do move beyond their original role in the system, becoming a protector and moving beyond their internalized trauma and negative messages.
Factives can also form in non-traumagenic systems, for a similar myriad of reasons. They can appear in all types of systems, for example a paragenic system where a para in a daydream was based on a real person, or an intentionally created system member, although intentionally creating a system member to replace a real person who is no longer in your life is advised against by the popular site Tulpa.io [3].
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- ↑ Alter Functions on did-research.org
- ↑ The Phenomenology and Treatment of Extremely Complex Multiple Personality Disorder by Richard P. Kluft
- ↑ FAQs and Myths on tulpa.io