Complaint and envy

Abstract

The object of this work is to demonstrate the rol played by the complaint in the patient as a defense against the envy which he felt towards the analyst; separating the hostile and envious part from hirnselí and placing it as a screen to cover what the
analyst discovered, and in this ways not loosing what he was gaining. These complaints covered the persecutory anguishes, these persueing the end of awaking comprehension, delicate sentiments at the same time in which he presented himself as
an invalid lactant and incapable of fending for himself. This could be undertood through the counter-transference favoured by projective counter-identification. The complaints were first aimed against the parents as the only means of being
able to have an internal control of the dreaded primary scene and to handle his aggresiveness, incremented perhaps due to his birth trauma (forceps) after his hypochondriac complaints had the finality of dissociating his persecution, locating it in
the body in order not to invade the analytical situation, avoiding the depression and hiding his sentiments of envy. His homosexual complaints allowed him to demonstrate that he was not aggressive so as not to be harmed. He pretended to be passive in order
to keep on sucking the penis of the father analyst and in this way feel internally strong (session of the three dreams). The last complaint was the intelectual defense as the others he could not keep on maintaining before his external progresses, he found
himself in the necessity of pointing out that his envy was openly aimed against what he imagined the analyst had and he lacked, thus appearing his desires of competition and rivalry; when these appeared he felt ah the fright entailed in loosing his fountain of
gratification and thus the blame he so much feared; but this permitted his the necessary insight to dominate his dissociation. The complaint was the technique mostly used in his analysis as a means of fortifying in his interior his good images and to handle the envy for what he thought not to have.