Die Verschränkung von Imagination und Realität

Überlegungen zur Theorie des Unbewußten bei Chasseguet-Smirgel

authored by
Angela Moré
Abstract

In Chasseguet-Smirgel's view psychic structuring takes place with the help of unconscious imagos of father and mother making it possible to separate the pre-oedipal maternal world from the oedipal world of the father. Both in the interpretation of the way these imagos relate to the real parents and in the absence of a distinction between fantasized and real developments Chasseguet-Smirgel's approach involves an intermingling of imagination and reality. The author sees one of the reasons behind this in the tendency toward a dichotomization of the psychic apparatus: there is no ego that could reconcile the id and the super-ego.

Organisation(s)
Sociology Department
Type
Article
Journal
Psyche
Volume
54
Pages
599-618
ISSN
0033-2623
Publication date
07.2000
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being