Citation

Bertolini M, Neri F. Imago 2004; 11(2): 153-162.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004)

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Abstract

Authors discuss self-destructiveness leading to the loss of mental functioning abilities and/or to suicide as a result of a symbolization deficit. Reporting clinical cases, they support the necessity of a symbolization of the self and of the object in order to make possible the integration of a non-destructive self-aggressiveness as a sign of the exit from omnipotence. In this stage the central role of the object is discussed, consisting in not denying hate and at the same time not taking revenge.

Language: it

Keywords

adolescent; human; adolescence; aggression; Aggressiveness; child behavior; review; fantasy; child psychiatry; self concept; object relation; psychoanalytic theory; Destructiveness; symbolism; Use of the object