The selfobject as immortal self |
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Authors: | Esther Menaker Ph.D. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Postdoctoral Program for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New York University, New York, USA;(2) the Certification Program in the School of Nursing of Columbia University, Columbia, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper begins by defining the selfobject and elucidating its role in the structuring of the self for each unique individual. The self becomes a repository of the memory images of emotional experiences with significant others. This process of internalization through which the self is continually nourished, and which enables it to grow, goes on throughout life. However, as a case example illustrates, the ability to internalize a selfobject depends on the ability to receive and to give love. Once the selfobject is incorporated into the self of “an other” it is perpetuated in another, is perpetuated, analogous to the transmission of genetic material. Each individual carries others within himself or herself and has the potentiality for continuing to live within the self of another. This is a kind of immortality. She is the author of many articles and books, most recentlyAppointment in Vienna (St. Martin's Press). |
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