Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Clara Mucci

Author:Clara Mucci [Mucci, Clara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epub3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-11-05T23:00:00+00:00

A similar explanation for the development of this pathologically grandiose self had been given early on and in contrast with Freud’s positive concept of infantile narcissism (Freud, 1914/1953) by Ferenczi as early as 1913, when in his article “Stages in the Development of the Sense of Reality” he spoke of the reactive rage of the frustrated child and his development of omnipotent fantasies as a defense. Ferenczi wrote about the attempt of the child to magically preserve “the feeling that one has all that one wants, and that one has nothing left to wish for” (1913, p. 219).

The child and subsequently the adult go to an extreme to protect the stability of the grandiose self, to the point of avoiding/denying/warding off any experience that would lead to the depletion of his or her grandiose image, using an inflated self as protection from the wounds of reality.

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