Joyce Angela
Adult and Child Psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytical Society, 25 Drylands Rd, N89HN, London, United Kingdom.
Am J Psychoanal. 2024 Dec;84(4):510-530. doi: 10.1057/s11231-024-09483-5.
This paper revisits D. W. Winnicott's famous account of his patient Piggle to examine the profound nature of her response to the birth of her baby sister in the light of the concepts of object constancy and absence. The author speculates that recent scholarship revealing the mother's Holocaust family history enables us to hypothesise that Piggle's infancy might have been marked by her mother's psychic absence. This contributed to difficulties in the establishment of object constancy leaving her vulnerable to more extreme responses to later absences, such as at the birth of her sister. The focus of Winnicott's interpretations at an Oedipal level is critiqued as is the significance of the psychoanalysis-on-demand setting of the work.
本文重新审视了D. W. 温尼科特对其患者皮格尔的著名描述，以便根据客体恒常性和缺失的概念，审视她对妹妹出生的反应的深刻本质。作者推测，最近揭示母亲大屠杀家族史的学术研究使我们能够假设，皮格尔的婴儿期可能因母亲的心理缺失而有别于常人。这导致她在建立客体恒常性方面存在困难，使她在面对后来的缺失时更容易产生极端反应，比如在妹妹出生时。温尼科特在俄狄浦斯层面的解释重点受到了批判，该作品随需而供的精神分析背景的重要性也受到了批判。
