Insight and experience. Commentary on Morris Eagle's >enactments, transference, and symptomatic cure<

  • This paper attempts to develop a phenomenology of the perpetrator's conviction of innocence in a condition of actual guilt. This phenomenology is developed through the investigation of dissociative states in a certain type of incestuous perpetrator: one who is herself a survivor of sexual abuse, physical abuse, or both. Clinical material suggests that certain types of schizoid perpetrators can genuinely experience the incestuous act as not really real not really sex, not really mine. This clinical phenomenon is examined from the perspective of two contemporary theoretical trends: the new view of the self as multiple (Bromberg, 1993 Mitchell, 1993), and the neo-Kleinian formulation of >adhesive< (Mitrani, 1994) or >autistic-contiguous< (Ogden, 1989, 1990) modes of pseudo-object relatedness. Incestuous acts are conceived as occurring within a prelinguistic modality, and are therefore not encoded in discursive, autobiographical memory. The coexistence of dissociated, multiple self states and modalities accounts for the contradictory levels of object relatedness, memory, and concern frequently encountered in perpetrators of incest.

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Author:Sue Grand
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 465-490.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1997
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Grand_S_1997
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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