Relaciones de sometimiento: Un vacío controlado.

Objectives: The aims of this paper are: 1) To explain relationships based on submission as a defensive type of linking which creates a "controlled vacuum", whose purpose is to fill up an inner state of emptiness or vacuum caused by disinvestiture of the parental object; 2) To propose a more precise definition of the concept of "relationships based on submission", and to differentiate them from relationships based on dependency and masochism. Development: This paper was built on case material, which was then confronted with theoretical concepts from the psychoanalytic clinic of the negative, as well as with relationships based on dependency and submission. Conclusions: It is concluded that the relationships based on submission are not an issue of a gain of masochistic pleasure by the subject, but rather a compulsive tendency to fill up a vacuum left by disinvestiture of the parental object through idealization of the object to which the subject submits. Because of that the search for masochistic pleasure is not offered as an interpretation to the patient. Here a matter of dependency arises. In this case with an analyst like me, auxiliary, that allows the patient to get the recovery of the disassociated parts of the self as well as a progressive disidealization of the object to which the subject submits. This in order to tolerate the emptiness and recover his/her sexuality as a search of pleasure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]