Deadness: psychoanalytic reflections.

Q3 Psychology

American Journal of Psychoanalysis Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI:10.1057/s11231-025-09511-y

Salman Akhtar

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Abstract

This paper elucidates the subjective experience of 'deadness.' Categorizing it into melancholic (due to pervasive ego inhibitions secondary to guilt) and schizoid (due to the internalization of profound early neglect) types, the paper describes the manifestations of deadness in the realms of self-experience, interpersonal relations, and attitudes towards life and death. It also outlines therapeutic strategies to ameliorate 'deadness.' These include (i) maintaining awareness of the patient's 'alive' parts, (ii) holding and containing the patient's 'dead' parts, (iii) staying responsive to non-human transferences, (iv) drawing conjectures and interpretations from countertransference, and (v) translating 'nothingness' into 'no-thingness.'

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本文阐述了“死”的主观体验。这篇论文将死亡分为忧郁型（由于普遍的自我抑制，其次是内疚）和精神分裂型（由于深刻的早期忽视的内化），描述了死亡在自我体验、人际关系和对生死的态度等领域的表现。它还概述了改善“死亡”的治疗策略。这些包括(i)保持对患者“活着”部分的意识，（ii）持有和容纳患者“死亡”部分，（iii）对非人类移情保持反应，（iv）从反移情中得出推测和解释，以及(v)将“虚无”转化为“无物”。

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American Journal of Psychoanalysis Psychology-Clinical Psychology

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期刊介绍： The American Journal of Psychoanalysis is an international psychoanalytic quarterly founded in 1941 by Karen Horney. The journal''s purpose is to be an international forum for communicating a broad range of contemporary theoretical, clinical, professional and cultural concepts of psychoanalysis and for presenting related investigations in allied fields. It is a fully peer-reviewed journal, which welcomes psychoanalytic papers from all schools of thought that address the interests and concerns of scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and contribute meaningfully to the understanding of human experience. The journal publishes original papers, special issues devoted to a single topic, book reviews, film reviews, reports on the activities of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, and comments.