Forrest David V
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Consultant to Neurology (Movement Disorders); Faculty, Psychoanalytic Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Psychodyn Psychiatry. 2015 Mar;43(1):47-65. doi: 10.1521/pdps.2015.43.1.47.
In the interaction between the rapidly proliferating slot gambling machines and Americans' minds and brains, there are subtle lures that keep people playing, and that even the game devisers do not fully understand. As they project onto the random machines, people enter a zone that resembles a meditative trance I have called praying to the god of chance. Masochism as it applies to gambling is a dynamic concept that requires the suffering to be viewed by imagined and projected parental imagos, who reward the gambler with love if not gambling success. Other motivations are evident in slot machine players, such as grief gambling and a fantasy of controlling losses. While gambling is as universal as religious instincts, state sponsorship of machine gambling is a conflict of interest for government, which is established to promote the general welfare, not addict the citizenry to raise revenues.
在快速 proliferating 的老虎机与美国人的心智和大脑之间的互动中，存在着一些微妙的诱惑，这些诱惑让人持续玩下去，甚至连游戏设计者也并未完全理解。当人们将注意力投射到这些随机机器上时，他们进入了一个类似于冥想恍惚的状态，我将其称为向机会之神祈祷。适用于赌博的受虐癖是一个动态概念，需要通过想象和投射出的父母意象来审视这种痛苦，这些意象会给予赌徒爱，即便赌博没有成功。老虎机玩家中还明显存在其他动机，比如悲伤赌博以及控制损失的幻想。虽然赌博与宗教本能一样普遍，但政府对机器赌博的支持存在利益冲突，因为政府的设立是为了促进公众福利，而非让民众上瘾以增加收入。 （注：“rapidly proliferating”这里原词有误，推测可能是“rapidly proliferating”，意为“快速 proliferating”，但不太明确确切意思，暂保留原文词形进行翻译。）
