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His mother-tongue: from stuttering to separation, a case history.
- Source :
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Journal of Analytical Psychology . Apr2001, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p257-273. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- This paper delineates the transference and countertransference experiences in the analysis of a patient whose presenting symptom and main concern was his stutter. I suggest that oral-sadistic rather than anal-sadistic hostile elements may be identified in this patient's particular stutter. I focus on its significance in terms of object relationship: my patient's struggle to 'get born', to emerge as a separate other. I argue that early symbiotic fusion needs in conflict with the need to separate produce his stutter. Speech and language are seen as the vehicle for separation and the stutter as a flight from separateness back to an illusion of fusion with mother. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00218774
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Analytical Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 5528645
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1465-5922.00236