Citation

Hańbowski W. Psychiatr. Pol. 2000; 34(1): 89-98.

Vernacular Title

Kompleks Edypa w przypadku naduzycia seksualnego.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Panstwowy Zaklad Wydawnictw Lekarskich)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10853360

Abstract

The paper describes a specific form of Oedipus complex that may occur as a result of sexual abuse. The author emphasises that formation of the image of one parent due to actual sexual abuse and the activity of the child's (patient's) own iscestual impulses causes that the second parent is experienced as a terrorizing and revenging rival. As a result, the child in his/her psyche, must face not only his/her own incestual desires, but also the parental objects, which do not provide any support, sense of safety or stability of existence. The author illustrates his thesis with a summary of three sessions of analytic psychotherapy of the patient with whom he worked in Cassel Hospital in London. In the described case, it can be seen how the patient's involvement in the therapy and her good will connected with it stimulated her incestual desires addressed at the analytician, what, in turn, activised the patient's destructive, punishing behaviour.

Language: pl