The living-dead structure of objects in grief and depressive states
Keywords:
depresión, duelo, yo, idealización, simbiosis, objeto muerto-vivo, material clínicoAbstract
This paper is an attempt to describe a particular structure of the object which seems to occur in all mourning processes and depressive states but not exclusively in these) in which the object is experienced as half dead-half alive.
Clinical experience and products of the fantasy (myths, legends, novels, etc.) show a great variety of such structures, some of them persecutory, some others damaged and depressive. In some cases, such as the one given as an example in this paper, the
genesis of the depression seems to focus around the dead-alive object, which occupies a place of first irnportance in the world of the unconscious. It has as a corollary a certain type of idealized object, both being distinct from the superego. The study of some sessions of the case here presented allows one, in our opinion, to outline a hypothesis on the genesis of the dead-alive and accounts
for the rigidity of this structure of the object and its difficult assimilation by the ego. The previous existence of an important symbiotic situation between the ego and the object allows one to throw some light on its genesis.
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