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PubMed1994

[Latent psychosis and the language of the body].

Social anthropology has investigated the characteristics of the primitive way of thinking, also called "magic", because, like infantile thought, it considers itself able to affect reality directly and magically. But an energetic "surplus" gives man the capacity to symbolize an archaic form of which is analogical thought. Then parts of the body can become real "psychic places" which communicated through their function and through symptoms. Ontogenetically the same process takes place: beginning from the somatopsychic matrix, which is the relationship between mother and child, the latter "desomatizes" himself gradually so that what is psychic, like the verbal language, differs from what is somatic. In psychosomatic patients, who often have a pre-oedipal structure, fusion fantasies prevail, the language resomatizes and the body becomes delirious. Frequently the digestive system is the most sensitive to emotions. M., a thirty year old young man with a diagnosis of spastic colitis is not able to hold out much longer at work where he alternatively suffers from constipation and severe abdominal colics. Only at home, when his anguish connected with his fear of contamination in public toilets is reduced, can he evacuate with diarrhea discharges. He presented to the Psychiatric Department, after being admitted into hospital several times and uselessly to search for an organic cause of his symptoms. During the first interviews he looks anxious, slightly depressed and his expression through gestures and words is very poor. The counter-transference responses of the therapeutist is a sensation of emptiness, distance and difficulty in communicating. In his behaviour one can notice remarkable anal features and experiences of paranoid type slowly emerge.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1994

The feminine self and penis envy.

This paper examines the integrative role of inner genitality in the formation of penis internalisations, which form part of the feminine self. Penis envy, operating simultaneously with the anxiety arising from a realisation of the introitus under the influence of inner genitality, organises functioning inner and outer female penis structures. This three-dimensionality of inner genitality, penis envy and anxiety for penetration is the condition of a functioning femininity. In the light of an analytic case history, the author follows the thawing out of a phallic defence position and the awakening of the obstructed genitality. Phallicity is seen as a traumatic defence structure, which prevents the development of functioning penis identifications. In the phallic mental world, the penis takes on an idealised and concrete meaning. Its desirability is denied, and the woman excludes her inner genitality from her relationship to it as an object. When most obstructed in her womanhood, a woman becomes a phallus herself. She lives in an imitative identity, in which the internalising psychic functions have come to a standstill. In such a mind, the ultimate purpose of defence is to avoid annihilation anxiety.

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PubMed1994

The functions of writing: transmission between generations and role assignment within the family, in Henry James and his family.

The Jameses provide abundant material for this study of the function of writing within a family, combining a relationship between generations and between the sexes among siblings. The starting point is Henry's dream of the Galerie d'Apollon, which can be referred to its sources in reality; its autobiographical account; and its transformation into a story. This material gives clues to some central features of his unconscious conflicts with both his father and elder brother. The father's writings deal with his concern with religion, which expresses his relationship with his own father. William transforms his father's theology into philosophy and becomes one of the pioneers of modern psychology. Alice's diary recounts her identification with her father's infirmity through her hysterical paralysis. Henry's work reveals that he is the one who really succeeded in solving his conflicts with the father. His literature is transgressive according to his father's and brother's values, though he shares their ideal of a consciousness common to the Jameses. Through fiction, Henry has indirect access to the drives; but only in his work did he acknowledge these, overcoming his oedipal conflicts. Thus Henry is the closest of the Jameses to psychoanalysis; his work enables us to make some hypotheses regarding the creative process.

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PubMed1994

The value of the historical perspective to contemporary psychoanalysis: Freud's 'seduction hypothesis'.

In this paper the authors re-examine the development of Freud's ideas on seduction, with a special focus on the evidence which Freud presented and upon which he relied as he attempted to confirm these ideas. Through this re-examination Freud's struggle with seductiveness, both in relation to his patients and in relation to his theories, comes to the fore. While the wish to be with the other through exerting an influence over him or her is perverted in the act of sexual seduction, it is, nevertheless, a force that must be recognised and contended with in other creative interchanges, including the analytic one. In studying Freud's struggle with this force, there is attained a better appreciation of the humanness, including the inevitable human limitations, of Freud and his thinking that rest at the foundation of psychoanalysis. This study thus has clear implications for the history of psychoanalysis, but, more importantly, it reveals the value for contemporary psychoanalysis in recognising this history.

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PubMed1994

Dialectical thinking and therapeutic action in the psychoanalytic process.

The therapeutic action of the psychoanalytic process depends upon a special kind of power with which the analyst is invested by the patient and by society, a power that is enhanced by adherence to psychoanalytic rituals, including the asymmetrical aspects of the arrangement. It is important, however, that the analyst also engage with the patient in a way that is sufficiently self-expressive and spontaneous so that a bond of mutual identification can develop between the participants. At the core of the generic "good object" is an element of uncertainty as the analyst struggles to find an optimal position relative to this dialetic between formal psychoanalytic authority and personal responsivity and self-expression. At the core of the generic "bad object" is an uncritical commitment to one side of the dialetic at the expense of the other. An extended clinical vignette illustrates how the analyst's struggle with this dialetic has great therapeutic potential.

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PubMed1994

Aspects of primary and secondary genital feelings and anxieties in girls during the preoedipal and early oedipal phases.

The author examines the development of the girl's psychosexual feminine self-image during the preoedipal and early oedipal phases, as well as the accompanying primary and secondary genital feelings and anxieties. The connection between the little girl's discovery and pleasure in self-exploration and masturbation and related anxieties about being "closed-up" is discussed. The nature of the corresponding object relationships is elucidated, especially the narcissistic significance of being like mother.

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PubMed1993

The dictator and his cure.

The role of notetaking in the case of Little Hans has been almost completely overlooked in the pertinent psychoanalytic literature. A focus on notetaking shows, among other things, how Freud's cherished little patient became a dictator and thereby took a decisive step in his analysis.

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PubMed1994

[Freud's identification with men who had 2 mothers: Oedipus, Leonardo da Vinci, Michealangelo and Moses].

In view of the fact that as a child Sigmund Freud was looked after by two mothers--his actual mother and a nursemaid--it is hardly surprising that traces of this pre-oedipal situation, fraught as it was with traumatisation and loss, should be discernible in the works of the creator of psychoanalysis. Freud's continued preoccupation with the Oedipus myth, his interest in "great men" like da Vinci and Michelangelo, and finally his identification with the figure of Moses are pointers not only to the paternal dimension (as long suggested by Freud's biographers) but also to the maternal dimension and its significance for Freud's life and work. The author demonstrates that those mythical and historical figures which Freud identified with--Oedipus, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Moses--themselves all had two mothers and sublimated this traumatic experience into outstanding achievements, the same being true of Freud himself "who solved the famous riddle and was a most powerful man".

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