2001
DOI: 10.1002/j.2167-4086.2001.tb00619.x
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On Being Forgotten and Forgetting One’s Self

Abstract: This paper assumes that evocative constancy, the ability to evoke reliably good-enough images of self and object in times of stress, underlies not only self and object constancy, but also the development of memory and the symbolic processes. It is suggested that a crucial element in this development is the mother's ability to construct and retain a vivid, cohesive, and reliable memory of her child, and to engage--in a multitude of implicit ways--in a process of mutual holding in memory. Where this process is d… Show more

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“…Recent psychoanalytic thinkers have also been tying dissociative phenomena to aspects of the early parent-child dialogue, though in a more global way. For example, Bach (2001), in a paper titled "On Being Forgotten and Forgetting Oneself," describes a patient who never felt that he could f it his moment-to-moment experiences into a pattern that had meaning and cohesion. At one point in the treatment, the patient remembered that his mother was always losing him in department stores when he was young.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recent psychoanalytic thinkers have also been tying dissociative phenomena to aspects of the early parent-child dialogue, though in a more global way. For example, Bach (2001), in a paper titled "On Being Forgotten and Forgetting Oneself," describes a patient who never felt that he could f it his moment-to-moment experiences into a pattern that had meaning and cohesion. At one point in the treatment, the patient remembered that his mother was always losing him in department stores when he was young.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition to the church providing a new model for the enhancement of familial relationships, it is believed that the ability for mentalization developed through one’s relationship with God may also translate to the improvement of personal and family connectedness. Sheldon Bach wrote about the string provided by parents with the “child’s continuous existence in the mind of the parents” (Bach, 2001, p. 748). This continuity brings together the beads of experiences into the “necklace of a connected life” (Bach, 2001, p. 748).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sheldon Bach wrote about the string provided by parents with the “child’s continuous existence in the mind of the parents” (Bach, 2001, p. 748). This continuity brings together the beads of experiences into the “necklace of a connected life” (Bach, 2001, p. 748). In a sense Pearl’s Christian faith was the string that held the two generations together as her Christian faith also linked the multiple pearls of her identity and self-states.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These findings suggest that early interactional or dyadic processes underlie the pathogenesis of dissociative phenomena, leading one to conclude that clinical treatment fostering collaboration and healthy dialogue facilitates an integrated experience for the patient. For example, Bach (2001) described the importance of the maternal caretaker in providing the infant with an ongoing, relational, intimate experience that enables a continuous sense of self to be experienced. "Knowing and not knowing" (Laub and Auerhahn 1993) probably begins with a disturbed dissociogenic mother's need not to know about herself-which hinders her ability to know her infant, who then cannot fully know who she is.…”
Section: Disturbed Attachment and Dissociationmentioning
confidence: 99%