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Defense mechanisms and psychic processes in social exclusion: Clinical considerations
TL;DR: In this paper, a post-Kleinian psychoanalytic perspective on social exclusion is proposed, based on the analysis of certain individual and collective defenses, which are triggered by very strong anxieties, repeat themselves in the dynamics of different conditions, according to the prototypical model of pathological narcissism and true racism.
Abstract: Following a post-Kleinian psychoanalytic perspective, this article proposes some considerations on social exclusion, based on the analysis of certain individual and collective defenses. Drawing from G. Di Chiara’s concept of psychosocial syndrome, social exclusion is explained primarily as the result of the mechanisms of inferiorization, exclusion and marginalization of those who are disadvantaged by and opposed to the logic of collective pathologies most prevalent in a given model of society. In our society, the logic of these syndromes, linked together, is especially one that promises a model of social adaptation ferociously based on competition. These mechanisms, triggered by very strong anxieties, repeat themselves in the dynamics of different conditions, according to the prototypical model of pathological narcissism and true racism.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the practical aspects of the use of interpreters during interviews, a subject that is often taken even more for granted than transla tion of psychiatric measures.
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"Defense mechanisms and psychic proc..." refers background in this paper
...These feelings generate love, genuine desire, and libidinal attributes, rather than merely hatred, sadism, and envy after the exaltation of the Self (Kernberg, 1975)....
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...As D.W. Winnicott (1958) indicated, they lose the capacity to be alone, and abandon themselves to the stray, resentful aspects of the Self....
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...Isolation and self-idealization of its own omnipotent aspects and the defense of their privileges are dominant in such a group leading to a splitting of the undesirable aspects of the Self and their project on on to other individuals or social groups....
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TL;DR: The development of the infant is governed by the mechanisms of introjection and projection as discussed by the authors, which are installed by it not only in the outside world but, by the process of incorporation, also within the ego.
Abstract: My earlier writings contain the account of a phase of sadism at its zenith, through which children pass during the first year of life. In the very first months of the baby's existence it has sadistic impulses directed, not only against its mother's breast, but also against the inside of her body: scooping it out, devouring the contents, destroying it by every means which sadism can suggest. The development of the infant is governed by the mechanisms of introjection and projection. From the beginning the ego introjects objects 'good' and 'bad', for both of which its mother's breast is the prototype—for good objects when the child obtains it and for bad when it fails him. But it is because the baby projects its own aggression on to these objects that it feels them to be 'bad' and not only in that they frustrate its desires: the child conceives of them as actually dangerous—persecutors who it fears will devour it, scoop out the inside of its body, cut it to pieces, poison it—in short, compassing its destruction by all the means which sadism can devise. These imagos, which are a phantastically distorted picture of the real objects upon which they are based, are installed by it not only in the outside world but, by the process of incorporation, also within the ego. Hence, quite little children pass through anxiety-situations (and react to them with defence-mechanisms), the content of which is comparable to that of the psychoses of adults. One of the earliest methods of defence against the dread of persecutors, whether conceived of as existing in the external world or internalized, is that of scotomization, the denial of psychic reality; this may result in a considerable restriction of the mechanisms of introjection and projection and in the denial of external reality, and it forms the basis of the most severe psychoses. Very soon, too, the ego
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01 Jan 1963
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Abstract: Thank you very much for reading envy and gratitude and other works 1946 1963. As you may know, people have look numerous times for their favorite readings like this envy and gratitude and other works 1946 1963, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some malicious bugs inside their laptop. envy and gratitude and other works 1946 1963 is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly. Our book servers saves in multiple countries, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Merely said, the envy and gratitude and other works 1946 1963 is universally compatible with any devices to read.
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"Defense mechanisms and psychic proc..." refers background or methods in this paper
...In this context, a healthy process of social integration assumes the interior fulfillment of an analogous process of psychic integration, according to the logic of the mechanism originally described by M. Klein (1932, 1935, 1946)....
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...As this process is the de facto basis of each experience of change and of authentic mental growth, there is opposition to equally serious experiencing the new and the Other, having contact with the object, the drives, wishes, anguishes, and defenses that it can trigger....
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...Integration, at both a psychic and a social level, assumes a prevalence of love over hatred, the transition from a paranoid, essentially egoistic mental state to a depressive state based on the preoccupation with and the interest in the Other (Klein, 1946; Meltzer, 1986)....
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01 Jan 1959
TL;DR: Melanie Klein's work in devising the techniques of child analysis made the treatment of young children possible and threw new light on psychological development in childhood and on the roots of adult neuroses and psychoses.
Abstract: This book demonstrates Melanie Klein's work in devising the techniques of child analysis. Not only did she make the treatment of young children possible, she also threw new light on psychological development in childhood and on the roots of adult neuroses and psychoses. Here she describes both the theory and practice of her method. Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was born in Vienna. She lived and worked in Budapest and Berlin before moving to London in 1926, where she practised as an analyst until her death. "Envy and Gratitude", "Love", "Guilt and Reparation" are her two earlier volumes of writing.
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...Meltzer and M. Harris (1983), a depressive position and reparation are a way to modulate...
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...Meltzer and M. Harris (1983) argue, individuals may enter into a mutual relationship to help each other...
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01 Jan 1997TL;DR: The Growth of the Mind as mentioned in this paper reveals the six fundamental levels that form the architecture of our minds, four of which are deeper even than the unconscious, depend on a series of critical but subtle emotional transactions between an infant and a devoted caregiver.
Abstract: In The Growth of the Mind Stanley Greenspan offers a profoundly new view of the origins of our minds' highest capacities. Contrary to traditional notions, he finds that intelligence per se does not arise from cognitive stimulation, but along with morality, empathy, and self-reflection has a common foundation in specific early emotional experiences. Distilled from two decades of research and practice in human development and adult and child psychiatry, this compelling book reveals the six fundamental levels that form the architecture of our minds. The growth of these levels, four of which are deeper even than the unconscious, depends on a series of critical but subtle emotional transactions between an infant and a devoted caregiver. In mapping these mind-building interactions, Dr. Greenspan clearly formulates the elusive building blocks of creative and analytic thinking, and the sense of self. He thus provides an exciting missing link between recent discoveries in neuroscience and the qualities that make us most fully human.
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