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PubMed1993

Superego pathology in conduct disorders.

This paper describes a form of superego pathology which arises from very traumatic childhood experience. The youngster takes into him or herself the negative qualities of the cruel, neglectful, and unloving caretakers. This internal abuser becomes the conscience and gives rise to an inner image of the self as evil and meriting only punishment and reproof. This joins the ego ideal as one of the regulating elements in the superego. Milder cases result in a success neurosis; more severe pathology expresses itself as "a criminal from a sense of guilt." Such youngsters tend to find ways of blaming themselves for the misfortunes of their friends and kin, they find patterns of adaptation which allow for chronic self abasement, and they are very likely to drift into substance abuse. There are many varieties of this form of disturbance, but characteristically, in the face of therapeutic efforts, they respond with a negative therapeutic reaction. Some suggestions are offered for therapeutic approaches.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1993

[The son of man. Freud's Oedipus myth].

In formulating his psychology of the unconscious, Freud makes constant reference to Sophocles' version of the Oedipus myth. The author provides detailed proof of the fundamental differences between the two versions, demonstrating that Freud's interpretation does violence to the source. Bollack marshals impressive evidence to substantiate his contention that from the early letters to Fliess all the way up to Moses and Monotheism Freud's sole concern was to point up the ubiquitous power of the unconscious (incestual desire, patricide) within the "holy" (nuclear) family, whereas Sophocles was preoccupied with an entirely different problem. In Bollack's view, Oedipus rex is the drama of the self-destruction of a royal family, a drama in which incest and murder have no very essential significance. Freud, by contrast, set out to de-mystify the fate that dogs the royal family from one generation to the next and to naturalise it into a form of unconscious behaviour--a tendency which Bollack sees as deriving from the tradition of the "drama of destiny", a genre prevalent in the 19th century.

Freudian Theory↗
PubMed1993

The female genital dress-rehearsal: a prospective process at the oedipal threshold.

Rather than focus on the girl's phallic identification as a compensatory reaction to her femininity, I offer a conceptual framework through which to examine how the girl symbolically masters and elaborates her biologically unfolding sexuality. Presumably, because her genital inner space can be defined and filled only through the playful retention and expulsion of an external object, the girl's phallic identification paradoxically affords her the first experience of her genital femininity. Borne out of her genital stimulation at the oedipal threshold, the genital dress-rehearsal turns on outside gestures becoming registered as sensations inside her body. As a result of her dual experience, the girl is both phallic and vaginal, giver and receiver, father and mother. Through the magic of play, the girl renegotiates her oath of fidelity to her internal, pre-oedipal mother, while laying claim to the kind of sexual vibrancy that her external, oedipal mother shares with her oedipal father.

Body Image↗
PubMed1993

On hate in love relationships: the narcissism of minor differences revisited.

Among the many reasons that feelings of hate develop in love relationships is the need to find and to exaggerate differences in order to maintain a sense of separateness. Freud's notion of the "narcissism of minor differences" provides a framework within which to understand this need to find disappointing differences in one's beloved. Developmental antecedents of this concern about defining and preserving one's separateness can be identified in both oedipal and preoedipal periods.

Freudian Theory↗
PubMed1993

Creativity: a work in progress.

Through the integration of autobiographical, theoretical, and clinical material, the author attempts to describe a developmental path leading to a "creative" solution to object loss. The implications of this model are considered both for the particular type of individual described and for general psychoanalytic theory and technique.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
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[Alice's nightmare. Analysis of a severe case of hysteria].

This report illustrates the difficult differential diagnosis between severe hysteria and psychosis in a young adult in crisis, and the need to elucidate the existing structure underlying the therapeutic approach. Alice's history will be the subject to a theoretic-clinic discussion. It allows to bring out important concepts to support an hypothesis of a neurotic decompensation.

Adult↗
PubMed1995

[The presence of absent persons: the identification changes of an adopted child].

Through the case study of the analytic psychotherapy of an adopted child, the authors illustrate the specificity of identification problems, in particular towards the paternal imago within an oedipal context. The transferential-countertransferential conditions that enable to consider the psychosexual development, in relation to trauma and adoption, within the framework of the therapeutic relationship will also be considered.

Adoption↗
PubMed1995

[Hybrid pathologies: difficulties in intricate clinical cases].

Following two cases of young patients, issued of african immigration or mixed franco-african couple, and presenting antisocial acts, the authors are wondering about the relationship between identity and ethnic troubles. They think it may be a clinical "message" of troubles, joining cultural distress and separation anxiety, on an obvious oedipian found.

Adult↗
PubMed1977

On the occurrence of incest fantasies.

Incest fantasies are often regarded as suggesting important ego or superego deficits. Actually, some nonpsychotic patients are found to experience such fantasies. In these cases the phenomenon occurs when certain psychogenetic and psychodynamic factors are present.

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