The Risk of a Melancholic Destiny of Loss in an Adopted Child
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2013.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : The following article presents a clinical study of the psychic mechanisms set into place by a 6-year-old child after his adoption at age 4 and a move to a new country. Having lost his support network or ‘objects’ (his country, culture and friends) he was tempted by a melancholic adaptation. The ensuing experience of loss reactivated earlier losses and threatened his fragile narcissistic foundations. This situation raises clinical questions and psychopathological hypotheses as to the quality of his relationship with his internal object, the nature of his identifications and the establishment of his superego caught up in a melancholic destiny.
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The following article presents a clinical study of the psychic mechanisms set into place by a 6-year-old child after his adoption at age 4 and a move to a new country. Having lost his support network or ‘objects’ (his country, culture and friends) he was tempted by a melancholic adaptation. The ensuing experience of loss reactivated earlier losses and threatened his fragile narcissistic foundations. This situation raises clinical questions and psychopathological hypotheses as to the quality of his relationship with his internal object, the nature of his identifications and the establishment of his superego caught up in a melancholic destiny.
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