Feldmann T B, Johnson P W
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine.
J Am Acad Psychoanal. 1992 Winter;20(4):561-76. doi: 10.1521/jaap.1.1992.20.4.561.
Weapons serve a variety of functions, both for individuals and for society. One such function is that of a selfobject for narcissistically vulnerable persons. This selfobject function allows the damaged self to maintain cohesion and to offset feelings of vulnerability and powerlessness. Because the weapon allows the personality to feel in control and to exert dominance over others, it may come to be viewed in an idealized manner. This is very similar to the idealizing selfobject transference described by Kohut. Weapons are more likely to become selfobjects for those personalities suffering from some degree of self pathology. The selfobject function of weapons, however, may have significance beyond individual psychopathology. Groups of individuals, societies, and even nations may utilize weapons to counter feelings of vulnerability and to diminish fragmentation of the group's collective self. Their destructive potential may be unleashed in response to an intense narcissistic injury and narcissistic rage. The importance of weapons can thus be better understood by examining them within the context of self psychology.
武器对个人和社会都发挥着多种功能。其中一种功能是作为自恋易受伤害者的自我客体。这种自我客体功能使受损的自我保持凝聚力，并抵消脆弱感和无力感。因为武器能让人格感到掌控局面并对他人施加支配，所以它可能会以理想化的方式被看待。这与科胡特所描述的理想化自我客体移情非常相似。武器更有可能成为那些患有某种程度自我病理的人格的自我客体。然而，武器的自我客体功能可能具有超越个体精神病理学的意义。个人群体、社会乃至国家都可能利用武器来对抗脆弱感，并减少群体集体自我的分裂。它们的破坏潜力可能会因强烈的自恋性伤害和自恋性愤怒而释放出来。因此，通过在自体心理学的背景下审视武器，可以更好地理解它们的重要性。
