'Oh, that I might be parted from my body': mirror perplexity and the nonrelational self
| Autor: | Alexander H. Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Psychoanalysis Perplexity medicine.drug_class Dissociative Disorders Dissociative Child Development medicine Humans Psychoanalytic theory Dialectic Ego Self Infant Cognition Middle Aged Mythology Object Attachment Mother-Child Relations Self Concept Psychoanalytic Therapy Clinical Psychology Depersonalization Psychoanalytic Theory Mediation Narcissism Female Psychology Cognitive psychology Mirroring |
| Zdroj: | Psychoanalytic review. 101(3) |
| ISSN: | 1943-3301 |
| Popis: | Psychoanalytic models have a commonly held view of necessary and accurate mirroring in the dialectic of emergent and already formed aspects of the self. Mirroring-perplexity, however, is a cognitive and affective state found in a group of patients for whom reflective mirroring results in a dissociative rather than a unifying experience of body and mind. A review of the myth of Narcissus reveals that mirroring requires a relational mediation of self and mirror image through another. This ontological organization affectively links the simultaneous sense of being in the body and in the reflected image after experiencing a state of dyadic union. Clinical vignettes illustrate the effects of missing maternal relational response initially made evident in unmirrored self-representations in the transference. |
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