By Phil Mollon
In "The Fragile Self" Dr Mollon argues that psycho-analysis calls for an sufficient idea of self with a view to handle successfully these states of brain during which a disturbed feel of self is well-known. He discusses issues of the self from various issues of view, drawing specific recognition to the paintings of Kohut and describing its strengths and obstacles. Mollon argues broader "taxonomy" of disturbances of self is needed and is going directly to strengthen his personal thesis that the sufferers in psychotherapy or research are usually unconsciously looking a wanted development-enhancing reaction from the therapist. The therapist's job is to acknowledge what this desire is and to articulate it to the sufferer. during this method, the hitherto lonely and unreached elements of the character may be contacted amd built-in. In exploring those concerns, many points of psycho-analytic technique and strategy are re-examined.
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Her preferred methods, which she attempted on many occasions, were either of drowning or self-strangulation through hanging. She regarded this as the ultimate goal of her life, to triumph in this way over her father by completing the act of dying which he had thwarted. She viewed this as an act of assertion and ownership of her own life. In the processes described here, there is an attempt to repair the self by taking the other into the self; the self is deformed and misper ceived in the image of the other.
It could also be said that narcissism, as described by Pritz and Mitterauer, attempts to guarantee not only the continuation of identity, but also of sameness, lack of development, growth and learning. Narcissism here seems to involve a regressive tendency, as if operating according to a principle more suited to lower biological levels. 20 The fragile self Greenwald (1980) introduces a similar perspective in talking of the ‘totalitarian ego’, describing a variety of experimental evidence for the way in which people consistently distort information so as to maintain their own cognitive structure, their own assumptions about the self and the world.
1975) and also his function as a representative of the ‘law’, the boundary (Lacan, 1957). Under certain circumstances, the father and his paternal func tion may be excluded, leaving the child incompletely differentiated from mother. Thus it can be seen that differentiation, the capacity to reflect, to experience the self as subject, and the role of the father as third party are all intertwined. These points are taken up later when I present a model of narcissistic disturbance. A further dichotomous relation addressed by several theorists is that between the ‘I’ and the ‘Me’.