TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Unbridled! Thoughts on times of self-begetting and violence
JO  - American journal of psychoanalysis
A1  - Ahumada, Jorge L.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1573-6741
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11231-021-09298-8
ID  - ref1
ER  -