On Trauma, Perversion, and “Multiple Personality”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8331968 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ira Brenner (0000-0002-8338-215X, Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 785-814 |
| Publication date | 1996-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000306519604400306 |
| PMID | 8892188 |
| OpenAlex | W2207441856 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 30 |
The role of perverse sexuality as an organizing influence in “multiple personality” is explored in this paper. Following a brief review of psychoanalytic thinking on sexual trauma and perversion, the author discusses his own views on dissociation and “multiple personality.” A clinical case is then presented in which transsexualism, homosexuality, and sadomasochistic heterosexual practices were manifested during altered ego states. Analysis of the transference revealed the centrality of sadomasochism in this patient. It is hypothesized that various perverse structures may be formed within these seemingly autonomous, amnestic states, in order to contain anxiety and encapsulate the aggression which resulted from early psychic trauma. Issues relating to diagnosis, counter-transference, reconstruction, and psychoanalytic technique are discussed also. If each, I told myself, could but be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable ... Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Aggression · Exhibitionism · Human sexuality · Id, ego and super-ego · Narcissism · Personality · Perversion · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sadomasochism · Sociology · Medicine · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions
Trauma and Affects
Soul Murder
On Human Symbiosis and the Vicissitudes of Individuation
The Perverse Attitude Toward Reality
Pain, Aggression, Fantasy, and Concepts of Sadomasochism
I am Awake’
An Example of “Character Perversion” In A Woman
Loss of Reality in Perversions-With Special Reference to Fetishism
Establishing Trauma
The Dissociative Character
Child Abuse and Deprivation
The Reconstruction of Early Childhood Trauma
Severe Regressive Disruptions of the Therapeutic Alliance
Some Ambiguities in the Method of Free Association and Their Implications for Technique
A Patient Who Was Not Sexually Abused
The Development of A Fetishistic Perversion
Belief and Suggestion in the Recovery of Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2024 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |