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Biomedical subjects
Leonard Shengold
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Haunted by parents--a literary example of change meaning loss: Edna St. Vincent Millay.
The author uses the life and personal history of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, as revealed through her diaries and letters and in biographies, to illustrate a particular type of psychoanalytic patient. Such patients are resistant to change, particularly when it involves letting go of the internalization of early parental figures. Although some of these patients fail to achieve successful analytic outcomes, Millay is an example of someone with similar circumstances who nevertheless made significant creative contributions.
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"What do I know?": perspectives on what must not be known when change means loss.
Some patients use many ways of not knowing and so not feeling murderous rage at actual and internalized parents they long for and are terrified of losing. They stubbornly resist the liberating psychoanalytic changes that they consciously seek. Hope, promise, and success have come to threaten unbearable loss and catastrophic anxiety. These terrible expectations must become responsibly felt and owned by the patient.
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