Concise Psychoanalytic Guide
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1. Great mother
The Great Mother stands for the unaware, the dark and deep bog, which devours and bears life. The term Great Mother involves two aspects: a good and bad side of motherliness:
a) The good Mother is nourishing and rising up her children in a caring, protective and empathetic, selfless manner.
b) The bad Mother destroys her kids by violence or any kind of binding a child too much to herself. This for example happens by overprotection, sexual abuse, neglect, eccentricity or by harshness.
2. The negative aspect of the Great Mother
The negative aspect of the Great Mother stands for any bad motherly influence towards her baby.
The bad Mother destroys her kids by violence or any kind of binding a child too much to herself. This for example happens by overprotection, sexual abuse, neglect, eccen- tricity or by harshness.
3. Oral conflict
An oral conflict implies the wish to have something and its prohibition because o a bad conscience. An oral wish stands for the capacity to do or eat something with relish without feelings of guilt. For example, orality includes the satisfaction of thirst, hunger, property and concealment.
4. Symbiosis
The word symbiosis derives from the old Greek and means living together. For example, mother and fetus build a unit or a symbiosis. The word symbiosis also includes the merging into nature, music, literature, poesy or love. Symbiosis moreover characterizes the close living together with another person. In the psychoanalysis, symbiosis stands for the being close together of two or more persons.
S.Freud coined the phrase primary narcism( Ziffer 1). C.G.Jung adopted the expression "participation mystique", which is nothing else than an unconscious identity (Ziffer 4). For M.S.Mahler symbiosis is a "metaphor for an undifferentiated state of the child from the mother. The hallucinatory- illusive omnipotent confusion with the mother and especially the illusive idea of a common frontier between the two in reality separated persons"(Ziffer 10)
5. Symbiotic Behaviour
Unsolved symbiotic behaviour is characterized by:
a) Fear
b) Passivity
c) Overadaptation
d) Inner agitation and tension
e) Impatience
f) Feelings of hurt and rage
g) Grandiosity
h) Depreciations
i) Depression
j) Addiction
k) Suicidal behaviour
6. Infantilism
Infantilism is a lack of maturity. Infantilism stands for all childish behaviour, which is not befitting an adult.
See: Was ist infantil?
7. orally inhibited instinct
An orally inhibited instinct is caused by a too strict super ego. An oral conflict implies the wish to have something and its prohibition because o a bad conscience. An oral wish stands for the capacity to do or eat something with relish without feelings of guilt. For example, orality includes the satisfaction of thirst, hunger, property and concealment.
8. Introjected parental objects
Introjected parental objects stand for all good and bad impressions, instructions, interdictions that a person has experienced in his childhood its parents.
9. Family prison
The phrase "family prison" describes the narrowness, confinement and the strong binding that a family or parent can exercise to a child.
10. Parent figure
All good and bad impressions, instructions, interdictions that a person has experienced in his childhood by its parents.
11. Parental object
All good and bad impressions, instructions, interdictions that a person has experienced in his childhood.
12. Metamorphosis
The mental transformation and maturation in the process of psychotherapy
13. Cathected
a wish or action often is connected with a feeling of fear, guilt or shame.
14. The stroke rules
The stroke rules show you ways how to be good to you or to others:
Five stroke rules
a) Accept strokes.
b) Stroke others.
c) Reject strokes.
d) Stroke yourself.
e) Ask for strokes.
Strokes are all things that are good for you.
15. Pars pro toto( latin):
part of the whole
16. Parent figure
All inner parental voices and messages, which are incorporated in the soul of a person.
17. Propulsion-regression
A step forward against backward. Progression against reverse direction in the psychic development.
18. Propulsion-regression
A step forward against backward. Progression against reverse direction in the psychic development.
19. Displacement
Displacement from down to top.