The relation between incestuous seduction and the melancholic in women

Abstract

When a situation of an inaugural maternal seduction becomes in a persistent narcissistic seduction, configures a real spoil of the child’s body. Own wishes and desires of the inaugural parental seduction acquire a devastating character for the psyche, and make the symbolic processing of the scars left by those painful encounters impossible. Difficulties in resignation and mourning leave identifications marked by hatred as a testimony and this makes us think in a love-hate dialectic weakened from the very beginning and shared with an intense repressed incestuous desire. The melancholy of a woman has to do with the imposition of an ideal of influence as an absolute master of life and death that a mother carries embodying a never-lost object, always present through a primary narcissistic identification. Think of transgenerational allocations, daughters lineages unconsciously rejected by their own mother, taken as identifications made that expel dissatisfaction, hopelessness, now projected on the daughter.