The Drama of the Gifted Child (The Search for the True Self)

Hesse, Hermann (continued)
mian, 93-94; Hermann Lauscher,
98
humiliation, 64-76, 90
idealization, 4, 70, 73, 85, 103
image formation, 95
individuation, 7, 13-14, 34, 35
instinct, 68, 93, 101
introject, 14, 20, 52-54, 100, 108-13;
loss of self and, 45-46; and analysis,
18-19, 102
introjection, 12, 25-27, 84, 85, 90, 93
Jacobson, Edith, on depression, 62-
Joffe, W., on depression, 62
Kernberg, Otto, 40-41, 102, 104
Kohut, Heinz, 7, 31, 104
Mahler, Margaret, 7, 31, 35
manipulation, 25-27, 57-58, 77
metapsychology, 73, 91-92
mirroring, 16, 32, 35
Moore, Henry, and mother-love, 4
moral masochism, 44-45
mother, 8, 8n, 31, 34, 34-37, 46-47;
and compulsion to repeat, 28;
contempt of, 100; idealization of,
4, 68; and interaction with child,
31, 84; and introjection, 25; instinct
of, 48; narcissistically deprived,
7, 11; as object, 79;
rejection by, 88, 109; and separation,
7; and socialization of the
child, vii, 99-102; see also parent
mourning, 20, 89, 104, 107; in recovery,
43-44, 56-57, 85; in analysis,
16, 21, 56-57, 101
Mourning and Melancholy
(Freud), 62
narcissism, vi-vii; healthy, ix, 7,
22, 31-34, 35, 63
narcissistic cathexis, 8, 14, 39, 45,
55-56; and the child, 32, 38, 74
narcissistic disturbance, 9-14, 34-36,
39-40, 42-45, 50-53; and insight,
15; examples of, 26-27, 28-29, 37-
38, 84-85, 93-94; and needs of patient,
81-83; in partially adapted
child, 59-61; and politics, 101; and
self-object, 63; siblings, 37; treatment
of, x, 9, 22-26; see also
grandiosity; mother; mourning,
and recovery; analysis
narcissistic needs, 9, 35, 101
narcissistic rage, 31, 108
Narcissus, legend of, 49-50
object loss, fear of, 79
object relation, 31, 75
obsessional neurosis, 25, 84-91
Oedipal conflict, 11, 16, 41, 67-68
parent, 73, 85, 93; and child, 27, 67,
74, 81, 97, 107; needs of, 8; compulsion
of, 7, 92; and contempt,
vii, 69, 103; and prohibitions, 95;
see also mother
patient, see analysand
perversion, 17, 25, 84-91, 108
phallic narcissism, 41-42
primary objects, 52, 90
psychosomatic symptoms, 53
puberty, and emotional changes, 28
reaction formation, 13
reality, 74, 101
Recollection, Repetition and
Working Through (Freud), 10
repression, 12, 44, 73, 75; of needs
and emotions, 7, 35, 54, 81
respect, viii, 7, 16
Sandier, J., on depression, 62
self, 6, 7; loss of, ix, 30, 45-46; see
also false self; true self
self-esteem, 7, 33, 39, 45
self-expression, 81-83
separation, 7, 13-14, 21, 34
shame, 6, 45, 82
siblings, 37, 72, 102
splitting off, 16, 27, 35, 44, 67, 86
transference, 17-21, 79, 85-86, 88-89
trauma, reenactment of, 78
true self: discovery of, 14-22, 57,
76-77; disorder of, 21, 25-26, 59-
60, 79, 87, 104; and healthy narcissism,
ix; and mirroring, 49
unconscious, see introject; introjection
Winnicott, D. W., x, 7, 12, 16, 20-
21, 31, 32, 51, 54, 63, 91
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