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W W Meissner

Publications and source records attributed to W W Meissner.

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PubMed1981

A note on narcissism.

The connection of the concept of narcissism with the concept of the self is re-examined in the light of Hartmann's formulation of narcissism as cathexis of the self. While the formula is valid, its converse remains open to question. Implications for a psychology of the self independent of (but not divorced from) the dynamics of narcissism are suggested in regard to the understanding of perversions, development, narcissistic object relations, and self-esteem. The viability of a separate psychology of the self in each area is proposed.

Cathexis↗
PubMed1980

The problem of internalization and structure formation.

The present essay has attempted to address the central notion of internalization with particular reference to the derivation of internalizations from object-relationships. We have identified several major forms of internalization, specifically incorporation, introjection and identification and have discussed their distinguishing characteristics. Moreover, the role of such internalizations in relation to objects and the quality of object-relationships, to which they correspond and from which they derive, was explored. Not only does the quality of object-relations influence the type and patterning of internalizations, but there is also a reciprocal aspect of the subject's involvement in particular object-relationships in terms of which the internal organization of the self formed by the functioning of processes of internalization contributes to the shaping and distinctive quality of respective object-relationships. Consequently, the connexion between internalizations and object-relationships tends to be mutually determining and reciprocally correlated.

Austria↗
PubMed1979

Studies on hysteria--Katharina.

Freud's account of his meeting with the country maid, Katharina, is re-evaluated from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective. Freud's original explanation of Katharina's hysteria was based on a set of quantitative-economic assumptions and a psychic model based on conflict and defense. A modern analytic perspective would shift the emphasis from the economics of discharge to the aims and objects of sexual activity. The understanding of sensual pleasure focuses more specifically on the related complex of intentions, purposes, meanings, and motives, as well as on the qualities, characteristics, and patterns of interaction with important objects.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Critique of concepts and therapy in the action language approach to psychoanalysis.

Critical evaluation is made of the attempts to reformulate basic psychoanalytic concepts in terms of a theory of action language. The criticism focuses on issues of the scientific status of psychoanalytic knowledge, the role of experience as the basis of psychoanalytic knowledge, the role of metaphor in the formulation of psychoanalytic theory (focusing particularly on the issue of anthropomorphism and the forms of acceptable metaphor in the theory), and the problem of levels of abstraction in theoretical conceptualization. Particular issues in the action language approach, which are challenged from a more traditional process-oriented psychoanalytic perspective, are the notion of action; the status of mind; the specific formulations and conceptualizations of drives and motives, conflicts, resistance, affects, and internalization; the nature of the concepts of self and identity. The critique developed in these areas is then utilized as the basis for assessment of clinical implications, particularly their application in specific psychoanalytic contexts.

Affect↗
PubMed1977

Psychoanalytic notes on suicide.

The typology of and theories on suicidal behavior are reviewed to integrate various points of view in terms of the paranoid process. Freud's theory of internalized aggression, the relation of suicide impulses to depression, the operation of narcissistic components in the complex motivation of suicide are related to the concept of the victim-introject as central to the pathology of suicide. Suicidal patterns play out the dynamics inherent in the victim-introject and its correlative component the aggressor-introject. The victim-introject serves as the core internalization around which a false-self system is organized; the suicide represents the attempt to destroy the false-self as a means of realizing the dynamic purposes of the victim-introject. The concept of the victim-introject integrates previous psychoanalytic formulations of suicide and provides a template for the development of a therapeutic rationale. Implications for therapeutic response are considered, particularly in terms of the need to undermine the patient's attempts to maintain and reinforce his victimization.

Aggression↗