Transparent Screens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8335756 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard J Rosenthal (435 North Roxbury Drive Beverly Hilk, CA 90210, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 295-317 |
| Publication date | 1988-04-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/000306518803600202 |
| PMID | 3403907 |
| OpenAlex | W4251319996 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
There is a kind of transitional phenomenon found among certain borderline patients which is quite distinct from Winnicottapos;s transitional object. These are patients who are preoccupied with maintaining proper physical distance from their objects, in order to regulate anxieties about isolation on the one hand, and identity-annihilating closeness on the other. Since they believe the activity of looking to be intrusive and devouring, hence dangerous, transparent screens are interposed between self and other, and serve as protective barriers. These screens function intrapsychically as well, to split off or hide those aspects of the self felt to be unacceptable. The analyst may witness the failure of the screen in several ways: it may create too great a distance, isolating the individual and keeping him from life; it may become contaminated by projections and turn into a persecutor, or trap the individual, a state of intolerable claustrophobia; most dramatically, it may suddenly shatter. The latter is associated with psychosis and death, and its appearance may be a harbinger of suicide
Aesthetics · Art · Closeness · Disconnection · Epistemology · Function (biology) · Identity (music) · Isolation (microbiology) · Object (grammar) · Phenomenon · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Witness · Computer Science · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Group psychology and the analysis of the ego.
The Childhood of the Artist
Certain Relationships between Fetishism and Faulty Development of the Body Image
The Primal Scene and the Sense of Reality
Sleep, the Mouth, and the Dream Screen
Mania and Sleep
Scopophilia and Object Loss
Transitional Objects
A Waking Screen Analogous to the Dream Screen
The Dream Screen
On Scierneuropsia
On Waking Screens
The Borderline Childhood of the Wolf Man
Spatial Representations and Psychopathology
Boundaries and Structure in Love Relations
On Screen Defenses, Screen Hunger and Screen Identity
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 1997 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |