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ANACLITIC OBJECT CHOICE [1 record]

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Record 1 2000-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
  • Mental Disorders
DEF

Choice of a loved object based on the unconscious wish to receive passive gratification.

DEF

Freud characterizes male heterosexuality as an anaclitic object-choice pattern. How Freud distinguishes the anaclitic type from the feminine "narcissistic" type does not clarify his emphasis either. The anaclitic object-choice "displays the marked sexual over-estimation which is doubtless derived from the original narcissism of the child, and thus corresponds to a transference of that narcissism to a sexual object", the narcissistic object-choice is not "a true object-choice" as such, but a behavioral pattern resulting from "an intensification of the original narcissism," which Freud finds "unfavourable to the development of a true object-choice with its accompanying sexual overvaluation".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie
  • Troubles mentaux

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