THE TAXONOMY
OF CONTROL
Every fragment in the archive is sorted not by where it aired, but by the tactic it demonstrates. Eight recurring maneuvers — each a discrete mechanism of coercion.
Love Bombing
Overwhelming affection deployed to fast-track attachment and manufacture dependency before the first boundary is drawn.
Gaslighting
The systematic denial of shared reality, designed to erode the target's trust in their own perception and memory.
Mirroring
Reflecting the target's desires, values and wounds back at them to appear as a predestined, perfect match.
Triangulation
Manufacturing a third party — real or invented — to provoke jealousy, competition and perpetual comparison.
Victim Stance
Weaponized suffering that disarms accountability and recruits defenders to a narrative where the abuser is the wounded.
Discarding
The abrupt devaluation and severing that follows once the target's supply or utility has been exhausted.
Hoovering
The post-discard return campaign — charm, crisis or guilt — engineered to pull the target back into orbit.
Contempt (The Smirk)
Fleeting microexpressions of superiority — a half-smile, a rolled eye — that leak the true self behind the mask.
