Narcissism – the refusal of twoness through sexual addiction and pornography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8983434 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan E Schwartz (0000-0002-4159-842X, Paradise Valley Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 287-305 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-5922.12761 |
| PMID | 35417588 |
| OpenAlex | W4223910809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Proceeding from oneness to twoness is a psychological process of relating inter- and intrapersonally. This article links the perspectives of French psychoanalyst André Green's concepts of the dead mother and narcissism with Hester Solomon, British Jungian analyst writing on the 'as-if' personality. These concepts are elucidated with the composite example of a self-described sexually addicted man. His behaviours attempted to mask the shadows of melancholy, a fragile self, and the absence of self-animation from early emotional wounds. He did not know love or the other. André Green, French psychoanalyst, described feelings of misery, lack, and emptiness. The defence against relatedness arises from fears of replicating the original object losses. He delineated death narcissism and life narcissism as limiting relationships and creating the illusionary. Narcissus could not live if he knew himself. Immersion within singularity occludes relationship to the unconscious and the other, like Echo. Jung's concept of the transcendent function evolves from inclusion of the symbolic through listening to the language of the unconscious. Through the transference and countertransference, the former disowned and split-off others, secreted in the shadows of addictions, open relatedness to self, soul, and world
Addiction · Criminology · Narcissism · Pornography · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Sexual Addiction · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Psychic Retreats
Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra
A Dual Conception of Narcissism
Go! Sterilise the fertile with thy rage’ Envy as embittered desire
The narrow use of the term ego in analytical psychology
The self in transformation
Out of the body
Self creation and the limitless void of dissociation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |