Is this my body?” Dealing with the uncanny in adolescence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973695 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catalina Bronstein (British Psychoanalytical Society, London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1358-1370 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-02 |
| 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 | 10.1080/00207578.2019.1680251 |
| PMID | 33945747 |
| OpenAlex | W3000004678 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
While we can all have uncanny experiences from time to time, there are some patients who live with a permanent sense of estrangement from themselves and the world that surrounds them. Uncanny experiences, in particular those involving the body, gain predominance in adolescence. In some adolescents their difficulty in recognizing their body as their own can become very pronounced after puberty when they are faced with the reworking of the Oedipal conflict and the potential overpowering effect of their drives. In these cases the uncanny experience of a 'disquieting unfamiliarity' can be felt either in relation to parts of their body or to their whole body leading to a feeling of being inhabited by the double. Through detailed clinical material from a disturbed adolescent, the author shows how the double is the product of a process of dissociation, which involves a previous process of projective identification connected to the wish to enter the mother's body to either possess and/or control her, in particular her sexuality and procreativity.. As a consequence of this process, the individual can feel persecuted by the phantasy of an introjected object, which either now claims independence or threatens the subject with the possibility of taking over the whole of the body/ego and thus killing the host. The author proposes that the uncanny effect that accompanies the process of dissociation, and that is lived out through the phantasy of the double, is what paradoxically eases the ego's anxiety of being taken over by the delusional aspects and the potential of a total psychotic breakdown
Feeling · Id, ego and super-ego · Projective identification · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Uncanny · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |