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BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS deep anger at her actual father's tification with the idealized rescuing suicide began to emerge. Having father. However it is noteworthy that in found a good real object in her thera- each relationship with the suffering pist, Jane could permit the image of children who came to depend on her, the abandoning father and the as- Jane inevitably grew tired of the situa- sociated negative affects to emerge tion and abandoned it. Moreover, after from repression. As these feelings were one year in the convent she aban- gradually worked through, her rela- doned her plan to become a nun and a tionships outside of the therapy missionary. For every messianic prom- became far less colored by the need to ise made there was a messianic prom- alleviate suffering and loneliness in ise broken, and in this latter pattern other persons. The strength of her we see her unconscious identification messianic strivings diminished as the with the disappointing father who had no longer repressed image of the deserted her by committing suicide. deserting father could become in- During the ensuing years Jane con- tegrated with and temper the image of tinued to embark upon and abandon messianic projects
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals
Published: Sep 1, 1973
Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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