Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sloate, Phyllis L.

Titel

Superego and Sexuality: An Analysis of a Psychosomatic Solution

Ist Teil von

• Psychoanalytic inquiry, 2010-09, Vol.30 (5), p.457-473

Ort / Verlag

New York: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Superego influences have been little considered in the current literature on psychosomatic illnesses; an archaic and sadistic superego, however, is often a dominating force in the maintenance of these painful bodily states. This dynamic is illustrated in the analysis of a dissociated and concrete patient, whose primary modes of defense, self-reparation, and object-relationship were at first erotized bodily pain and illness. Analysis of an intense, highly conflicted transference facilitated the gradual emergence of this patient's capacity to make use of a metaphorical interpretive process. Severe narcissistic injuries were integrated, allowing the evolution of a mourning process. This fostered individuation of the self, establishment of a differentiated body image, an integrated superego, consolidated object relations, and a more mature ego ideal.