Refusal of Autonomy
The Use of Words by a Young Adult in Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8334897 |
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| Authors | Julia Fabricius (The Anna Freud Centre 21 Maresfield Gardens London NW3 SSF ENGLAND Fax: (011)171-794-6506 E-mail: [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-120 |
| Publication date | 1998-02-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/000306519804600107 |
| PMID | 9565901 |
| OpenAlex | W2051785178 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Analytic work with a depressed twenty-three-year-old woman is presented showing how she used ruminative thoughts to maintain a fixed internal dyadic relationship in which neither self not object had autonomy. The resulting omnipotent/impotent impasse meant that she was unable to move forward in her development. In the analysis this relationship was externalized through her use of words, which were employed as actions designed to have a concrete effect on both her self and her analyst. For a long period in the analysis it was essential to understand and interpret the function of her words, rather than to look for symbolic meaning, and it was this which gradually enabled her to take a third, observing, position from which she had greater freedom to operate as an adult
Autonomy · Developmental psychology · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Child and Animal Learning Development · Early Childhood Education and Development · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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