@article{ref1,
title="Unbridled! Thoughts on times of self-begetting and violence",
journal="American journal of psychoanalysis",
year="2021",
author="Ahumada, Jorge L.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Mind is multi-levelled displaying an eons-long prehistory, while as Freud well knew civilization is new and frail: in biological evolution Thanatos long antecedes Eros. Complex intraspecies interchanges in higher animals proceeding by analogic communication give a firm place to Freudian Dingvorstellungen. Self-recognition and reflective thought come exceedingly late, in apes, requiring affectionate baby-mother mirroring. Deriving from inquiry on ego-dystonic neuroses, psychoanalysis must in the Age of Media deal with ego-syntonic pathologies sporting a demise of self-observation and self-reflection: borderline, autistic and autistoid disturbances. The 'epidemy of autism' offers fertile ground for very early psychoanalytic intervention, here briefly illustrated clinically. But on the other side, adolescent and post-adolescent disturbances cover a range going from autistoid retraction to more and more defiant if not violent protagonistic self-begettings, often propelled by overriding feelings of victimhood: filio-parental violence is the offshoot. Postmodernist ideologies accompany and fuel such trends.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1573-6741",
doi="10.1057/s11231-021-09298-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11231-021-09298-8"
}