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Fracturing drive or fracturing connections – relational considerations. Commentary on paper by Paul Williams

  • This essay first situates the development of self psychology within the culture of North American individualism, then delves into its relevance for understanding Asians, and comes full circle in reassessing what is universal or culturally variable in the current formulation of self psychology. The Asian self is compared with the North American one, and Asian familial hierarchical relationships with American egalitarian ones, resulting in a different cultural structuring of selfobject relationships, including the psychoanalytic one. A comparative psychology of idealizing selfobject relationships is then developed. Intercultural encounters between Asians and North Americans in the United States reveal problems in the interface because of the different culturally influenced selfobject relationships.

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Author:Alan Roland
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 06 (1996), pp. 461-475.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1996
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Roland_A_1996
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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