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PubMed2000

A psychoanalytic contribution to psychic vampirism: a case vignette.

In conclusion, the vampire is a complex symbol of the voracious, ambiguous, horrific, transformed, and transforming, early mother figure. What may cause a regressive reaction leading to loss of object constancy? In this study I have addressed a specific physical transformation of the mother that created profound anxiety in her child. This experience can be felt as horrific. An emotional deadening may be another response. We are all susceptible to anxiety stemming from some loss of object constancy. Mr. A. certainly suffered from this phenomenon: witness his need to experience me as always available and sustained. He experienced his mother as an elusive, vague entity. We can only conjecture that his very early, preverbal upbringing was similarly experienced. To some extent, we were all exposed to some element of imperfect, inconsistent mothering. This reality, along with the other previously mentioned variables, could make us all vulnerable to vampiric anxieties. Also, I have suggested that these infantile experiences of frightening changes in the transformed mother, who may be felt as draining the life from the child, can become the basis for an organizing fantasy and lead to type of object-relating that is self-sacrificing to an extreme--a masochistic yielding to a severely demanding object. Through identification with that object a demanding, insatiable quality is acquired. Finally, this form of early experience is, perhaps, so much a part of human experience that it has become the basis of a myth of universal proportions.

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PubMed2001

NHS trust chief executives as heroes?

This paper presents a reading of the transcripts of interviews with NHS Trust Chief Executives. Using a poststructuralist understanding of the interviews, it privileges a reading that (ironically) represents these Chief Executives as heroes. Following the classic hero story line, they leave the civilized order of home and journey into a threatening wilderness where they encounter dangerous and magical things but overcome them all because of their masculine characteristics such as rationality, strength and resourcefulness. One way in which these stories can be understood to have significance is that they (misleadingly but powerfully) portray management as obvious and necessary by evocatively drawing on a myth of ancient origin. The piece concludes with some reflections on the ontological implications of the analysis and reflexive comments on the production of truth as a problem.

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PubMed2003

Naxos disease.

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Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia↗