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Article : printed text
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Title:
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On the Threshold of Loss and its Representations: Masochism as a Safeguard against Depressive Disorder (2021)
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Authors:
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Elise PELLADEAU
, Author
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In :
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International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (vol. 102, n° 6, 2021)
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Article on page:
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pp. 1174-1189
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Languages:
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English
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Keywords :
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Fétichisme
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Mécanisme de défense
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Masochisme
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Dépression
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Abstract:
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This article explores defensive modes of masochism based through the case study of Sarah, a 25-year-old patient who is regularly followed in psychoanalytical therapy. I will postulate the idea that fetishization of moral masochism should be seen from the perspective of melancholic processes. Drawing on several moments of her therapy, I will illustrate how the primitive idealization of the introjected and denigrated object in the melancholic process lays the conditions for a decisive moral masochism, and whose unconscious idealization defends against depressive breakdown.
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