TY - JOUR A1 - Kavaler-Adler, Susan T1 - Seduction, date rape, and aborted surrender JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 1, 2010), pp. 015-026. N2 - This paper clarifies the dual-layered nature of the >demon lover complex,< with its background of both pre-Oedipal trauma and Oedipal-level desire. It draws on an object relations understanding of the unconscious and dissociated addiction to an internal demon object that has derivations in the personalities of the actual parents, and in the internalization of these parents. The dramatic case of early trauma compounded by adult date rape trauma serves to illustrate how a >developmental mourning process< in treatment can resolve such trauma. It also illustrates how reparation with the mother that partially heals pre-Oedipal trauma cannot immunize anyone against Oedipal-level attractions to a >demon lover< father, as represented in a displacement, resulting in victimized behavior, and in an aborted surrender to heterosexual desire. However, this victimization can be resolved, as seen in the clinical illustration, when the psychoanalyst has an understanding of the mourning process in developmental terms, working with a natural interaction between mourning and transference evolutions in treatment. The case also demonstrates the transitional object role of the psychoanalyst who is involved with the healing of pre-Oedipal trauma through mourning. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kavaler-Adler, Susan T1 - The beginning of heartache in character disorders: On the way to relatedness and intimacy through primal affects and symbolization JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 4, 2018), pp. 207-218. N2 - This paper studies the interaction of the clinical theories of two major British theorists, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott. Through three clinical examples, we see how the >Klein-Winnicott dialectic< operates in a significantly developmental fashion to advance and fulfill clinical work. Winnicott’s >object survival< is looked at in developmental conjunction with Klein’s >mourning< as a primary clinical and developmental process. This interaction also captures the essence of working with the aggression of a self that has been traumatically disrupted within its early development. This paper demonstrates how such work leads to the assimilation and grieving of primal object loss, evolving into a >developmental mourning process.< This developmental mourning includes the working-through of an >abandonment depression< in the character-disordered patient. A clinical example in a 1989 essay on >psychic pain< by Betty Joseph is used to set up the clinical challenge of going beyond the symptomatic clinging behavior of developmental arrest, into full psychic birth as a separate other, an Other who can relate to an Other. Conclusively, the subjective visceral affect noted and monitored in its clinical dimensions here is that of human >heartache,< which can also include regret. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kavaler-Adler, Susan T1 - Charlotte Bronte and the feminine self JF - The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 50 (1990), pp. 037-043. Y1 - 1990 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kavaler-Adler, Susan T1 - Emily Dickinson and the subject of seclusion JF - The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 51 (1991), pp. 021-038 Y1 - 1991 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kavaler-Adler, Susan T1 - Some more speculations on Anna O. JF - The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 51 (1991), pp. 161-171. Y1 - 1991 ER -