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Correspondence The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 58, No. 2, 1998 As a service to our readership, James S. Grotstein's paper, "Why Oedipus and Not Christ? A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Innocence, Human Sacrifice, and the Sacred, Part I: Innocence, Spirituality, and Human Sacrifice," appearing in Vol. 57, No. 3, September 1997, pp. 193-220, was made available on the private Internet service directed to the psychoanalytic profession, The Psychoanalytic Connection (http-//www.psychoanalysis.net). The following correspondence was selected, compiled, and edited with the correspondents' approval by Mariam Cohen, M.D., the Journal's Online Editor, from the lengthy e-mail exchange focusing on this paper. The paper's author was a participant in the electronic conversation. To the Editor: Grotstein's clear discussion (Grotstein, J. S. [1997]. Why Oedipus and not Christ? Part I) of the object relations of abused patients and their suffering caused me to think about the relationship between abuse, intense negative affect, object relations, and morality. Because abuse results in the internalization of "bad objects," a simple view of abuse is to say that these "bad objects" must somehow be replaced with better objects, and the therapist must not allow himself to be seduced by the pa- tient's pleas or upset by the patient's http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1998 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
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1573-6741
DOI
10.1023/A:1022120718076
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 58, No. 2, 1998 As a service to our readership, James S. Grotstein's paper, "Why Oedipus and Not Christ? A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Innocence, Human Sacrifice, and the Sacred, Part I: Innocence, Spirituality, and Human Sacrifice," appearing in Vol. 57, No. 3, September 1997, pp. 193-220, was made available on the private Internet service directed to the psychoanalytic profession, The Psychoanalytic Connection (http-//www.psychoanalysis.net). The following correspondence was selected, compiled, and edited with the correspondents' approval by Mariam Cohen, M.D., the Journal's Online Editor, from the lengthy e-mail exchange focusing on this paper. The paper's author was a participant in the electronic conversation. To the Editor: Grotstein's clear discussion (Grotstein, J. S. [1997]. Why Oedipus and not Christ? Part I) of the object relations of abused patients and their suffering caused me to think about the relationship between abuse, intense negative affect, object relations, and morality. Because abuse results in the internalization of "bad objects," a simple view of abuse is to say that these "bad objects" must somehow be replaced with better objects, and the therapist must not allow himself to be seduced by the pa- tient's pleas or upset by the patient's

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