A Contribution to the Supervisory Panel
- The capacity for personal isolation is as critical to psychological health as is the capacity for object relatedness. In this paper, the notion of personal isolation is expanded to include a form of isolation in which the infant replaces the mother-as-environment with his own sensation matrix. This form of experience is not conceived of as a phase or stage of development prior to object relatedness rather, it is viewed as an ongoing facet of all human experience that serves as a buffer against the continual strain of being alive in the world of human beings. The understanding of this primitive dimension of personal isolation provides a way of thinking about the differences between the elaboration of universal >autistic-contiguous< forms of experience and the development of pathological autism.
Author: | Thomas H. Ogden |
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Parent Title (English): | Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 01 (1991), pp. 377-390. |
Document Type: | Articles |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 1991 |
Release Date: | 2017/11/20 |
Format: | xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage |
IdNo: | Ogden_T_H_1991a |
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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