The Unconscious Domain by Henry Kellerman

Author:Henry Kellerman
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783030350093
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Where there is no repressed anger, not only will there not be a symptom, there cannot be a symptom.

The question becomes: How is it possible that the psyche is thus intellectually gifted and at the same time severely intellectually challenged? The following section entitled The Repetition-Compulsion will attempt to answer this seemingly puzzling issue.

The Repetition-Compulsion

Again, the question becomes: How is it that the psyche can be both brilliant and dumb—simultaneously? This issue was raised in an earlier sub-section of this chapter under the heading: “Instrumentalities of the Psyche.” A clinical example follows that possibly explains this seeming contradiction.

A young woman, 22 years of age, was referred to treatment by a family member because she was apparently heart-broken by the break-up of her relationship with a married man. This man was more than 30 years her senior. At the time of their clandestine relationship this man was a bit over 50 and had already celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary. The patient related that he and his wife originally met on a train station. Apparently this patient and this man had been consistently taking the train at the same time for about a year until one day, independently, they both were running to catch it and out of breath, barely did.

The patient claimed that this man, soon to be her lover, told her he no longer felt the so-called once in a life-time romance with his wife and instead confessed that he had been furtively glancing at this patient for the past year when they were both on the train at the same time—even before they became personally familiar with one another. The patient said she was surprised when realizing the parallel between how these lovers met and how this man and his wife also met—on a train.

Our patient also confessed that while he had been observing her, she had been observing him as well. At that point they continued talking whenever they ran into one another on their morning commute. At one point they agreed to meet at a quiet spot. Soon thereafter their consistent furtive assignations began. These lasted for about half a year. The patient also reported that her lover and his wife were no longer sexually involved but together still focused on their two late adolescent sons and that this focus comprised the basis of their current non-sexual platonic relationship.

Other than her story about their meeting on the train, our patient began her treatment talking more or less about her childhood—a childhood characterized by extreme trauma. Her mother was alcoholic and her father was reported by her to be a sadistic and brutal person who aiming at her head, once swung at her with a hammer but at that precise moment, she moved away in time so the blow only struck her on the side of the head nevertheless causing her to be hospitalized with a serious injury. She stated that in her growing-up years she couldn’t remember any time of her young life where she had felt safe or even had ever been lovingly embraced.

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