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Friends Role: Among friends role he established a reputation as a man of God, a popular spiritual adviser. In this role he won the admiration of certain ecclesiastical and social circles in St. Petersburg. These people knew that the imperial couple, Nicholas II and Alexandra, were receptive to appeals and advice from a man of God. The sponsors who effected Rasputin's introduction at court in 1905 hoped that they could control him once he had won the confidence of the ruler. The czar accepted him, but only in the limited role of speaker of soothing religious sentiments.
It is significant that a child often chooses as friends role those whom he perceives as somewhat similar to him. Moreover, he tends to see best friends role as more like his ideal self-image than his present concept of himself (99, 1956). Apparently love has an element of wanting to be like one's preferred friends role. |
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