Ego Constriction
dc.contributor.author | Brakel, Linda A. W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T16:20:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T16:20:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Brakel, Linda A. W.; (2004). "Ego Constriction." The American Journal of Psychoanalysis 64(3): 267-277. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45680> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-6741 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-9548 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45680 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=15367835&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The terms ego constriction, ego inhibition, and ego restriction have not been clearly differentiated in their usage in the literature. In this paper a rationale for “ego constriction” as an entity distinct from both ego inhibition and ego restriction is given, despite its clear similarities to each. In a person with an ego inhibition, the ego inhibits a part of its own functioning because a particular function is linked to an unacceptable impulse. It is an internalized conflict. The person with an ego restriction, in contrast, avoids psychological pain triggered from an area in the outside world by restricting activity in that area. Like each of these problems but different, a person with an ego constriction first externalizes an internalized conflict associated with important functions or activities. Then, only through a series of particular obligatory steps can the person “overcome” the ego constriction—albeit temporarily. It is noted in this paper that the function of the specified obligatory steps is structurally parallel to the rigid obligatory behavior necessary for genital gratification in the perversions. As the recognition of this distinction arose in the course of an analysis of a mental health professional, something of the necessarily shared nature of analytic work is noticeable, shining through as the background for the work of this paper. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Public Health/Gesundheitswesen | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Clinical Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ego Constriction | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychiatry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cross Cultural Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ego Inhibition | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ego Restriction | en_US |
dc.title | Ego Constriction | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan and The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, U.S.A.; e-mail: | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 15367835 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45680/1/11231_2004_Article_489861.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:TAJP.0000041261.99201.d1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | The American Journal of Psychoanalysis | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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