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Role of maternal imago transformation in psychotherapeutic process

stmm. 2024 (3): 139-148

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2024.03.139

Full text: https://stmm.in.ua/archive/ukr/2024-3/10.pdf

YURIY PRIVALOV, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow at the Social Expertise Department, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (12, Shovkovichna St., Kyiv, 01021)

csep@csep.kiev.ua

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0935-5265

ANNA VOVK, Candidate of Sciences in Psychology, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (1, University Street, Lviv, 79000)

junejean1778@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1505-7096

In modern psychology, the topic of human attachments is part of the issue of social relations between people, their regulation in the field of education, upbringing, and psychotherapy. The formation of attachment types is rooted in family communication systems characterized by family rules, personal boundaries, and direct communication. Individual and family psychotherapy offers many effective tools for developing family systems and compensating for the negative effects of their influence on the individual. The family system allows each family member to consolidate the foundations of narcissistic identity, as well as become a subject of their own history and a social subject. Each child is born mentally in the heart of an existing family psychic apparatus, which is supported by a socio-cultural matrix. Culture contains and maintains the syncretic background of the psyche and supports the process of psychic structuring.

Interactions and affective exchange have psychic consequences, and the emergence of representations demonstrates the role of caregivers. Psychoanalytic theory is based on the basic premise that the representation of an object arises from the reactivation of traces of pleasure associated with the experience of need satisfaction that unites infants and their mothers. An exceptional place in the inner life of a person is occupied by the unconscious image of the mother, the maternal imago, the change of which entails a transformation of attitudes towards the world, society, people and oneself, which has led to the relevance of this research topic. The object of study of the article is the maternal imago. The subject of the study is the process of transformation of the maternal imago in psychoanalytic work. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the possibility of changing the maternal imago in the process of psychoanalytic work and the reflection of these changes on the client’s attitude towards himself and others.

Keywords: imago, Other, Ego, mother image, maternal image

References

  1. Badaracco, J.E.G. (2000). Psicoanálisis Multifamiliar. Los otros en nosotros y el descubrimiento del sí mismo. Buenos Aires: Paidós Psicologia Profunda.

  2. Bergson, H. (1907). L'Évolution créatrice. Paris: Félix Alcan, coll. Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine.

  3. Bianchini, B., Scabbiolo, P. (2018). L'estetica nella terapia psicoanalitica della coppia. Interazioni, 1-2018/49. https://doi.org/10.3280/INT2019-001011

  4. Bion, W.R. (1993). Attention and Interpretation. London: Karnac.

  5. Buber, М. (2003). Two Types of Faith. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

  6. Freud, S. (1914). Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through (Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psychoanalysis). London: Hogarth.

  7. Freud, S. (1905). Three essays on the theory of sexuality. In: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (vol. 7, pp. 130-243).

  8. Gibello, B. (1984). L'enfant a l'intelligence troublé e. Paris: Le Centurion.

  9. Green, А. (1983). Narcissisme de vie. narcissisme de mort. Reprise, 14.

  10. Guntrip, H. (1992). Schizoid Phenomena, Object-Relations, and the Self. Karnac Books.

  11. Husserl, E. (1931). Méditations cartésiennes. Introduction à la phénoménologie. Paris: Armand Colin.

  12. Jung, C.G. (1946). The Psychology of the Transference. In: Collected Works (vol. 16). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

  13. Jung, C.G. (1916). Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. Routledge.

  14. Jung, C.G. (1912). The Theory of Psychoanalysis. In: Collected Works (vol. 4). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

  15. Kaes, R. (2012), Le malêtre. Paris: Dunod Editions https://doi.org/10.3917/dunod.kaes.2012.01

  16. Klein, M. (1952). Envy and Gratitude and Other Works. 1946-1963. London: Hogarth.

  17. Klein, М. (1945). Narrative of a Child Analysis. In: The Writings of Melanie Klein (vol. 4). London: Hogarth Press.

  18. Lacan, J. (1977). Écrits: A Selection. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

  19. Lévinas, E. (1961). Totalité et infini. Essai sur l'extériorité. La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff.

  20. Lévinas, E. (1963). La trace de l'autre. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Septembre.

  21. Lévinas, E. (1972). Humanisme de l'autre homme. Fata Morgana.

  22. Man, P. (1989). Critical Writings: 1953-1978. Lindsay Waters.

  23. Neumann, E. (1973). Die Grosse Mutter. Dusseldorf: Walter.

  24. Ruszczynski, S. (1993). Psychotherapy with Couples: Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies. London: Karnac Books.

  25. Sartre, J.-P. (1943). L'Être et le Néant: essai d'ontologie phénoménologique. Paris.

  26. Schore, A.N. (2001). Minds in the Making: Attachment, the Self-organizing Brain, and Developmentally Oriented Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 17(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.2001.tb00593.x

  27. Stern, D.N., Sander, L.W., Nahum, J.C., Harrison, A.M., Lyons-Ruth, K., Morgan, A.C., Bruchweilerstern, N., Tronick, E.Z. (1998). Non-interpretive Mechanisms in Psychoanalytic Therapy: The 'Something More' than Interpretation. International Journal of Psycho-analysis, 79(5).

  28. Winnicott, D.W. (1965). The Theory of Infant Parent Relationship. In: The Maturational Process and The Facilitating Environment. London: Hogarth.

  29. Winnicott, D.W. (1975). Le role du miroir de la mere et de la famille dans le development de l'enfant. In: Jeu et Réalité. L'espace potentiel. Paris: Gallimard.

Received 08.06.2024

Role of maternal imago transformation in psychotherapeutic process

stmm. 2024 (3): 139-148

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2024.03.139

Full text: https://stmm.in.ua/archive/ukr/2024-3/10.pdf

YURIY PRIVALOV, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow at the Social Expertise Department, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (12, Shovkovichna St., Kyiv, 01021)

csep@csep.kiev.ua

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0935-5265

ANNA VOVK, Candidate of Sciences in Psychology, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (1, University Street, Lviv, 79000)

junejean1778@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1505-7096

In modern psychology, the topic of human attachments is part of the issue of social relations between people, their regulation in the field of education, upbringing, and psychotherapy. The formation of attachment types is rooted in family communication systems characterized by family rules, personal boundaries, and direct communication. Individual and family psychotherapy offers many effective tools for developing family systems and compensating for the negative effects of their influence on the individual. The family system allows each family member to consolidate the foundations of narcissistic identity, as well as become a subject of their own history and a social subject. Each child is born mentally in the heart of an existing family psychic apparatus, which is supported by a socio-cultural matrix. Culture contains and maintains the syncretic background of the psyche and supports the process of psychic structuring.

Interactions and affective exchange have psychic consequences, and the emergence of representations demonstrates the role of caregivers. Psychoanalytic theory is based on the basic premise that the representation of an object arises from the reactivation of traces of pleasure associated with the experience of need satisfaction that unites infants and their mothers. An exceptional place in the inner life of a person is occupied by the unconscious image of the mother, the maternal imago, the change of which entails a transformation of attitudes towards the world, society, people and oneself, which has led to the relevance of this research topic. The object of study of the article is the maternal imago. The subject of the study is the process of transformation of the maternal imago in psychoanalytic work. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the possibility of changing the maternal imago in the process of psychoanalytic work and the reflection of these changes on the client’s attitude towards himself and others.

Keywords: imago, Other, Ego, mother image, maternal image

References

  1. Badaracco, J.E.G. (2000). Psicoanálisis Multifamiliar. Los otros en nosotros y el descubrimiento del sí mismo. Buenos Aires: Paidós Psicologia Profunda.

  2. Bergson, H. (1907). L'Évolution créatrice. Paris: Félix Alcan, coll. Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine.

  3. Bianchini, B., Scabbiolo, P. (2018). L'estetica nella terapia psicoanalitica della coppia. Interazioni, 1-2018/49. https://doi.org/10.3280/INT2019-001011

  4. Bion, W.R. (1993). Attention and Interpretation. London: Karnac.

  5. Buber, М. (2003). Two Types of Faith. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

  6. Freud, S. (1914). Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through (Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psychoanalysis). London: Hogarth.

  7. Freud, S. (1905). Three essays on the theory of sexuality. In: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (vol. 7, pp. 130-243).

  8. Gibello, B. (1984). L'enfant a l'intelligence troublé e. Paris: Le Centurion.

  9. Green, А. (1983). Narcissisme de vie. narcissisme de mort. Reprise, 14.

  10. Guntrip, H. (1992). Schizoid Phenomena, Object-Relations, and the Self. Karnac Books.

  11. Husserl, E. (1931). Méditations cartésiennes. Introduction à la phénoménologie. Paris: Armand Colin.

  12. Jung, C.G. (1946). The Psychology of the Transference. In: Collected Works (vol. 16). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

  13. Jung, C.G. (1916). Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. Routledge.

  14. Jung, C.G. (1912). The Theory of Psychoanalysis. In: Collected Works (vol. 4). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

  15. Kaes, R. (2012), Le malêtre. Paris: Dunod Editions https://doi.org/10.3917/dunod.kaes.2012.01

  16. Klein, M. (1952). Envy and Gratitude and Other Works. 1946-1963. London: Hogarth.

  17. Klein, М. (1945). Narrative of a Child Analysis. In: The Writings of Melanie Klein (vol. 4). London: Hogarth Press.

  18. Lacan, J. (1977). Écrits: A Selection. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

  19. Lévinas, E. (1961). Totalité et infini. Essai sur l'extériorité. La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff.

  20. Lévinas, E. (1963). La trace de l'autre. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Septembre.

  21. Lévinas, E. (1972). Humanisme de l'autre homme. Fata Morgana.

  22. Man, P. (1989). Critical Writings: 1953-1978. Lindsay Waters.

  23. Neumann, E. (1973). Die Grosse Mutter. Dusseldorf: Walter.

  24. Ruszczynski, S. (1993). Psychotherapy with Couples: Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies. London: Karnac Books.

  25. Sartre, J.-P. (1943). L'Être et le Néant: essai d'ontologie phénoménologique. Paris.

  26. Schore, A.N. (2001). Minds in the Making: Attachment, the Self-organizing Brain, and Developmentally Oriented Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 17(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.2001.tb00593.x

  27. Stern, D.N., Sander, L.W., Nahum, J.C., Harrison, A.M., Lyons-Ruth, K., Morgan, A.C., Bruchweilerstern, N., Tronick, E.Z. (1998). Non-interpretive Mechanisms in Psychoanalytic Therapy: The 'Something More' than Interpretation. International Journal of Psycho-analysis, 79(5).

  28. Winnicott, D.W. (1965). The Theory of Infant Parent Relationship. In: The Maturational Process and The Facilitating Environment. London: Hogarth.

  29. Winnicott, D.W. (1975). Le role du miroir de la mere et de la famille dans le development de l'enfant. In: Jeu et Réalité. L'espace potentiel. Paris: Gallimard.

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