The Identity and some of its vicissitudes
Keywords:
identification, narcicism, individuation, dyad, object-relation, clinical materialAbstract
Identity formation requires a long and complicated process which unfolds since the earliest stages of development up to post-adolescence and even adulthood. The present paper discusses some of the difficulties in the process of individuation which stem from insufficient self/object differentiation. A pathological kind of narcissistic organization which persists
in a part of the Ego and the Ideal formations may give rise to psychotic or perverse outcomes, just as it is in the foundations of failures of identityla formation which appears in depressive, addictive, or psychosomatic structures. Some clinical vignettes are presented to illustrate these concepts and some references to the meta-psychological aspects of this organization are
presented.
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