@article{ref1,
title="Adolescence and chronic suicidal tendencies--the biography of the Italian poet Cesare Pavese (1908-1950)",
journal="Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie",
year="1997",
author="Scherbaum, N.",
volume="65",
number="1",
pages="16-22",
abstract="Suicide is widely understood as a failed solution of a crisis triggered by actual stress in a psychologically predisposed person. This description of the biography of the Italian author Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), who committed suicide at the peak of his career, emphasizes that chronic suicidal tendencies may be a feature of certain life-styles. A diary published posthumously shows that he had been reflecting on suicide for many years. A psychodynamic interpretation of his chronic suicidal tendencies stresses the importance of developmental goals in adolescence and early adulthood. Pavese did not establish a firm ego-identity. He remained through-out his life in a state of ambivalence between intimacy and autonomy, typical of adolescence. He increasingly experienced his writing as a surrogate for real life. His suicide was the paradoxical attempt to experience himself as a person acting in reality.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0720-4299",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}