Affects and psychic conflict.
Affects and psychic conflict.
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影响和心理冲突。
DOI:
10.1080/21674086.1975.11926698
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发表时间:
1975
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通讯作者:
C. Brenner
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C. Brenner
Anxiety is not the only affect which characteristically triggers de fenses and psychic confiict; depressive affect does the same. The two affects are defined, compared, and related to the pleasure principle. Precipitants of depressive affect are discussed and compared with precipitants of anxiety. Defenses and other reactions to depressive affect are also discussed. The clinical importance of this expansion of the psychoanalytic theory of confiict and symptom-formation is emphasized, especially with respect to superego functioning and confiicts related to aggression.Since the publication of Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (Freud, 1926) anxiety has been the affect most closely associated with psychic conflict. The currently accepted connection be tween the two can be summarized as follows. Whenever a de rivative of a drive or of a self-punitive or self-destructive trend is perceived as dangerous, anxiety develops. In order to elimi nate or minimize this anxiety, attempts are made to ward off or defend against the dangerous derivative. The result is charac teristically a compromise between derivative and defense, either with no anxiety or with less than would have developed without the defense. Thus the components of conflict are: 1, wishful striving, 2, anticipated danger, 3, defense, and 4, compromise among these. The function of defense is to avoid anxiety in ac cordance with the pleasure principle. Since current psycho analytic theory-the structural theory-subsumes drive deriva tives under the id, self-punitive trends under the superego, and defenses under the ego, one may say that there are two major classes of conflict, those between ego and id and those be tween ego and superego. In both, anxiety is understood to oc cupy a key position. It is the trigger that sets an individual at odds with dangerous id or superego derivatives and that is re sponsible for the initiation of the defenses that oppose them.