On the threshold of loss and its representations
Masochism as a safeguard against depressive disorder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972169 |
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| Authors | Élise Pelladeau (0000-0001-6736-9767, Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, University Lecturer, CAPS, Poitiers, France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1174-1189 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2021.1938078 |
| PMID | 34402759 |
| OpenAlex | W3195968498 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This article explores defensive modes of masochism based through the case study of Sarah, a 25-year-old patient who is regularly followed in psychoanalytical therapy. I will postulate the idea that fetishization of moral masochism should be seen from the perspective of melancholic processes. Drawing on several moments of her therapy, I will illustrate how the primitive idealization of the introjected and denigrated object in the melancholic process lays the conditions for a decisive moral masochism, and whose unconscious idealization defends against depressive breakdown
Idealization · Melancholia · Object (grammar · Perspective (graphical · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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