@article{ref1,
title="Deliquency: an alternative to melancholy",
journal="Quaderni di Criminologia Clinica",
year="1975",
author="Rossi, R. and Di Marco, E.",
volume="17",
number="4",
pages="547-574",
abstract="The authors by illustrating three cases of deviant behaviour (of which two followed up in psychotherapy), and referring to the figure of the &quot;criminal urged by a sense of guilt&quot; described by Freud, declare that criminality may represent an alternative to melancholy. They also state that the antisocial behaviour is the most economical &quot;solution&quot; for the subject possessed by the sense of guilt originated by the Super-Ego for the unconscious ambivalence conflicts towards the parental figures. In fact, perpetrating a crime the delinquent is punished for a crime whose importance is lower than those conceived by their fantasy (incest, parricide) by a tribunal that does not apply the lex talionis, unlike the Super-Ego. The authors finally point out that criminality not always represents the &quot;solution&quot; of a neurotic conflict and this is due to the fact that the &quot;choice&quot; is also dependent upon the socio-economic conditions of the various subjects.<p /><p>Language: it</p>",
language="it",
issn="0033-4928",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}