Identification with the Victim
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9230368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John R Macgregor (31 J 7 22nd St. Metairie, LA 70002, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-68 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21674086.1991.11927301 |
| PMID | 2017541 |
| OpenAlex | W2329300826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Identification with the victim is a sadomasochistic compromise formation which defends against feared or forbidden destructive-libidinal wishes as it simultaneously gratifies and punishes one for having such wishes. The process involves doing to oneself what one would do to others (or, alternately, inviting or letting others do to oneself what one would do to them). People with certain symptomatic and characterologic traits seem especially prone to this. It is hypothesized, however, that identification with the victim is an essential component of all masochism, including the normal masochism of normal superegos, and is therefore ubiquitous
Compromise · Identification (biology) · Projective identification · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology · Sociology and Norbert Elias
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |