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Mother as Messenger of Love and Death

  • For mothers, the act of giving birth also brings them close to death as well as other human experiences. The mother represents the dual structure of life and death in the mind. It was this unconscious convergence that stirred the interest in reconsidering the subject of the loss of children and its effect on individual devel-opment. This article demonstrates what happens when death triumphs over life chronologically close to birth. The author presents a clinical report on a six-year-old girl, Dinah, who suffered the effects of the mother's mourning. She illustrates the therapeutic approach to mourning over time, at moments in which the shadow of pain is more clearly present. These are moments when the loss must be brought to consciousness, because of the unconscious effects it has on the survivors. Dinah's problems were not caused by the loss itself, but rather the fact that the loss oc-curred in a phase of her emotional development when she was only a baby an un-able to react in a mature manner.

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Author:E. G. Sánchez
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 10 (No. 1, March 2001), pp. 57-63.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2001
Release Date:2012/12/13
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Sanchez_E_G_2001a
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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