Schizoid Phenomena, Object-Relations and the Self
Language: English
Pages: 437
ISBN: 0823659852
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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safeguarding of independence, even to being unable to accept any suggestion or tolerate any advice, becomes quite an obsession. It begets a fear of committing oneself to anyone or anything in any way. People will change clothes, houses, jobs, interests, as well as chopping and changing in friendships and marriage. Indecision is a typical result. Sudden enthusiasms are followed by loss of interest. One patient reported what is in fact quite a common symptom. He said, T can't really settle myself
him by, and it eases his mind superficially if he can find a scapegoat. One patient who lived an unnecessarily restricted life, partly because his withdrawnness involved him in travel phobias, fantasied that he was living at a small wayside country station on the moors, on the side of a main railway line, and all the mainline traffic rushed through and past but never stopped there. 'missing the bus' and It is far more common to find people exhibiting mild traits of introversion, and poor
internal fantasy world, while the traumatized, sensitive and exhausted heart of it withdraws deeper still. The evidence provided by regressive behaviour, regressive symptoms and regressive dreams and fantasies, shows that this most deeply withdrawn ego feels and fantasies a return to the womb, safe inside the 'fortress' from which it probably still has some dim memory of having emerged. Only thus can we account for the distinct and separate functioning of an active oral infantile libidinal ego
problem emerges in tragic selfcontradictoriness in the problem of schizoid suicide. The longing to die represents the schizoid need to withdraw the ego from a world that is too much for it to cope with. Whereas depressive suicide is the result of an angry destructive impulse, schizoid suicide is the result of apathy towards real life which cannot be 82 THE SCHIZOID PERSONALITY accepted any longer. All available energy goes into a quiet but tenacious determination to fade out into oblivion, by
In this process he was getting this lost heart of himself more and more into relationship with me and reunited with his conscious self. This would be the final phase of his treatment, which could and should go on quietly and reliably until he found that he no longer reacted with unrealistic anxiety to very ii THE SCHIZOID PERSONALITY 4 to his security in life, and he ceased to be vulnerable at the point of over-dependence on mother-substitutes. Typical of this last phase of analysis were
