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Psychological implications of a vision disorder.
- Source :
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Journal of Analytical Psychology . Apr2017, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p205-226. 22p. 4 Color Photographs, 2 Black and White Photographs. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The paper discusses how the condition of crossed-eyes affects a baby's eye contact with mother and potentially results in the loss of a vital emotional connection with her during the earliest days of life. This loss may contribute to a rupture that arrests emotional development at a deep psychic level. It is suggested that, in the same way as premature separation, the rupture can precipitate a 'fusional complex', a defence that develops to protect the infant against psychotic anxieties. The paper proposes that psychological development atrophies in this place and creates a blind spot. These ideas are explored through analytic theory and developmental literature. The dreams of a patient and his art are used to illustrate a 10-year 'alchemical' process of bringing repressed material into consciousness and transformation. Healing the psychological wounds of deficits in early eye contact may be found to bring sight to a blind spot that was created by the nature of the condition itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00218774
- Volume :
- 62
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Analytical Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121961637
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12305