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Paranoid-Schizoid Anxiety, Triangulation, and Oedipal Trauma

Paranoid-Schizoid Anxiety, Triangulation, and Oedipal Trauma The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2000 PARANOID-SCHIZOID ANXIETY, TRIANGULATION, AND OEDIPAL TRAUMA Robert T. Waska Certain patients are theoretically challenging and therapeutically diffi- cult. Their transferences seem to be centered around oedipal dynamics, but careful examination reveals a pre-oedipal profile prone to primitive triadic conflicts. Oral and anal struggles predominate within an apparently oedipal organization. I believe these patients are exhibiting a trauma-induced re- gression to an early state of paranoid-schizoid (Klein 1946) triangulation. This more undifferentiated state, in turn, has usually been the sight of prior overstimulation, deprivation, or attack from the internal and external envi- ronment. Melanie Klein (1952) brought attention to the infant’s emerging triadic fantasies when she said, early stages (of the oedipus complex) are characterized by the important role which part-objects still play in the infant’s mind while the relation to complete objects is being established....Powerful oral desires, increased by the frustration experienced in relation to the mother, are transfered from the mother’s breast to the father’s penis. (p. 78) Klein goes on to quote Abraham who points out how the penis is regularly equated to the breast and that other body parts can stand for those two organs in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Paranoid-Schizoid Anxiety, Triangulation, and Oedipal Trauma

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 60 (2) – Sep 24, 2004

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1023/A:1001912824544
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Abstract

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2000 PARANOID-SCHIZOID ANXIETY, TRIANGULATION, AND OEDIPAL TRAUMA Robert T. Waska Certain patients are theoretically challenging and therapeutically diffi- cult. Their transferences seem to be centered around oedipal dynamics, but careful examination reveals a pre-oedipal profile prone to primitive triadic conflicts. Oral and anal struggles predominate within an apparently oedipal organization. I believe these patients are exhibiting a trauma-induced re- gression to an early state of paranoid-schizoid (Klein 1946) triangulation. This more undifferentiated state, in turn, has usually been the sight of prior overstimulation, deprivation, or attack from the internal and external envi- ronment. Melanie Klein (1952) brought attention to the infant’s emerging triadic fantasies when she said, early stages (of the oedipus complex) are characterized by the important role which part-objects still play in the infant’s mind while the relation to complete objects is being established....Powerful oral desires, increased by the frustration experienced in relation to the mother, are transfered from the mother’s breast to the father’s penis. (p. 78) Klein goes on to quote Abraham who points out how the penis is regularly equated to the breast and that other body parts can stand for those two organs in

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Published: Sep 24, 2004

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