Early shame and mirroring

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6130090
AutoresLone Frølund (a Fauerholm Allé 7, 2820 , Gentofte , Denmark, autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen20
Número1
Páginas35-57
Fecha de publicación1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0106-2301 • E-ISSN: 1600-0803
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01062301.1997.10592553
OpenAlexW2009479610
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas14

In differentiation of early and mature shame, the phenomenological content of shame changes with the development of a stable self-state. In this hypothesis, early shame refers to a person's dependence upon mirroring himself and in being mirrored by an outer object, while mature shame refers to introspection and self-reflection. From a developmental psychological point of view, the connection between self-development and mirroring is expounded. Mirroring is defined as a psychic dialectic process between the inner psychic reality and the outer reality. Early shame is connected to dyadic mirroring, which refers to attachment and empathy. Mature shame is connected to triadic mirroring, which refers to separation and reflection. Early shame emerges from discrepancies between the infant's expectations of a complementary affective response and the mother's response, and is defined as an early marker of differences in the mother/infant unit. It is argued that early shame in smaller ‘doses’ has a regulating function on self-development by maintaining the psychic dialectic process, while in larger ‘doses’, it has a disturbing effect on the self-development, resulting in pathological shame. In the therapeutic process, early shame appears as shame scenarios illustrated in the text by a clinical vignette

Dialectic · Empathy · Epistemology · Mirroring · Object (grammar) · Psychic · Shame · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Psychology · Social Psychology