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https://doi.org/10.24869/psihei.2022.144

THE REPARATION OF THE MYTHICAL MOTHER AND THE ETHICS OF SPEAKING WELL – A REFLECTION ON THE SHORT STORY PSYCHOSIS NEUROSIS

Ivo Matulić ; Centre for pyschotrauma, Clinic for Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka


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Abstract

In this article, the author attempts to shed light on the patient’s motivation for writing and
sending the short story Psychosis Neurosis to his psychiatrist. The author considers the
use of humour as an unconscious mechanism, as ego rebellion, and as the separation from
narcissism. Furthermore, the author sees the use of sublimation as a defence that finds its
origins within the reparation of injuries caused to the mother and an attempt to restore
the dignity of internal objects. The article ends with Lacan’s ethics of speaking well as the
ultimate desired consequence of the psychoanalytical process that appears to be touched
by this story

Keywords

humour; sublimation; the reparation of the mythical mother; The Real; the ethics of speaking well:the dignity of The Thing

Hrčak ID:

292161

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/292161

Publication date:

24.1.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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