Trauma and the Wise Baby

Kilborne, Benjamin

doi:10.1057/ajp.2011.14

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“…Furious anger has also to be repressed by the infant, whose natural "passivity" has been interrupted. The prodigal child matures too early; such precocious maturity is often the reaction to mortal danger, a matter of physical or psychological survival (Ferenczi, 1923; also see Kilborne, 2011). Ferenczi wanted desperately to grow within the psychoanalytical movement, but also as a man, and counted on his spiritual father, Freud, to play the role of "good enough parent" to assist him.…”

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“Freedom to Grow”

Kelley-Lainé¹

2015

Am J Psychoanal

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Kelley-Lainé¹

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“…By some kind of outgrowth of the maternal function, they fulfi ll a care-taking and anticipating function with the adults. By taking care of the adult, they take care of themselves (also see: Kilborne, 2011 ). Later on, when they become adults and come to analysis, we need to stay very vigilant as to not be lured into an analysis that would repeat the disavowal of yesteryears.…”

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From Disavowal and Murder to Liberty

Garon¹

2012

Am J Psychoanal

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In his (1909) paper, Introjection and Transference, Ferenczi puts forward the murder that, at the end, has to be inevitably repeated with the patient. This idea is particularly pertinent to patients who are victims of transgenerational traumas and their disavowal. The capacity to talk and even to think is paralyzed when a family history is made of emptiness, murder and madness. The case of an interminable analysis allows us to grasp how trauma and its disavowal are reenacted in the transference and in the countertransference. The patient comes to analysis searching for meaning in the face of something that could not be elaborated and remains meaningless. Interpretation and construction open the way to a process of historicization/subjectivation that is essential to access temporalization and to open up a future that might escape the repetition of a disavowed and timeless past.

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Becoming a Peter Pan: Omnipotence, Dependency and the Ferenczian Child

Bar-Haim

2015

Am J Psychoanal

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The aim of this paper is to provide a short history of the changes in Ferenczi's concept of early childhood, during the two decade period, 1913-1932. Initially, Ferenczi mainly emphasized children's feelings of omnipotence, which enable them to perceive themselves as strong, independent and capable human beings. By the mid-1920s, however, he felt that his earlier work did not give a good account of what comes after the stage of omnipotence, and that it did not adequately describe the difficulties in the transition from pleasure to reality principles. However, in his Clinical Diary, Ferenczi became fully aware of how fragile and insecure children are, and therefore how dangerous-yet necessary-it is for them to abandon the "stage of omnipotence" and to gain a "sense of reality". For Ferenczi, traumatized children are children who had not been loved in their early childhood, and therefore could not develop the capacity to make the journey from pleasure principle to that of reality. It will be suggested that a paradigmatic example for this kind of child is Peter Pan.

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Trauma and the Wise Baby

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

“Freedom to Grow”

“Freedom to Grow”

From Disavowal and Murder to Liberty

Becoming a Peter Pan: Omnipotence, Dependency and the Ferenczian Child

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