RESUMEN
This article focuses on the prevailing aspiration to reach a "good-enough ending" in analysis, a concept that is partly realistic and partly illusional. I discuss some of the obstacles that interfere with achieving this yearned for goal, and lead to endings that are far from the misleading illusion of the good-enough termination, that many of us believe we have achieved and are many more than it is commonly reported. I describe characteristics, obstacles, blockages, dreads within the analysand, within the analyst and in the space in between, which lead to endings which are far from good enough, by any criteria we might choose. These obstacles include the failure to distinguish between "real" versus "similar to"; emotional excess; emptying out of internal resources and toxemia of therapy/analysis; a fascination with certain levels of mind versus a neglect of others; osmotic pressure for oneness and the terror of perfection; and malignant nostalgia. Reflecting on such complex facets in the analytic process is relevant not only for a deeper understanding of illusions that we and our analysands hold with regard to endings, but also, implicitly, to the understanding of illusions, beliefs, and myths we and our patients have regarding beginnings.
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Ilusiones , Terapia Psicoanalítica , Humanos , EmocionesRESUMEN
Este artigo tenta enfocar o desenvolvimento emocional precoce, tanto durante a gravidez quanto na prima infância, como relevante para entender os estados mentais primitivos encontrados no trabalho clínico. Os prismas escolhidos para entender as origens de nossa mente, nesta pesquisa, são o do pensamento psicanalítico, baseado na experiência clínica e na teorização dessa experiência; o das interpretações psicanalíticas de fetos e observações de bebês; e, finalmente, o dos estudos desenvolvimentais.
This article attempts to focus on early emotional development, during pregnancy as well as primary childhood, as a relevant factor in understanding primitive mental states found in psychoanalytic clinic. The prisms chosen for the understanding of the origins of our mind, in this research, are: the prism of psychoanalytic thinking, based on the clinical experience and the theorization of this experience; the prism of the psychoanalytic interpretations of fetuses and the observation of babies; and, finally, the prism of developmental studies.
Este artículo intenta centrarse en el desarrollo emocional precoz, tanto durante el embarazo como en la primera infancia, como relevante para entender los estados mentales primitivos encontrados en el trabajo clínico. Los prismas escogidos para entender los orígenes de nuestra mente, en esta investigación, son el del pensamiento psicoanalítico, basado en la experiencia clínica y en la teorización de esta experiencia; el de las interpretaciones psicoanalíticas de fetos y observaciones de bebes; y, finalmente, el de los estudios del desarrollo.