Sandler P C
Int J Psychoanal. 1997 Feb;78 ( Pt 1):43-52.
The author proposes the need for a term which describes a universal primitive tendency of the human mind to concretise non-sensual mental phenomena. Drawing on Bion's theory of thinking, he suggests that there is an active process whereby alpha-elements are transformed into beta-elements, which can then masquerade as intelligible sense data. This process is identified and illustrated through a series of clinical vignettes in which the analyst was tempted to relate to the patient's material as if it were truly describing concrete external reality rather than disguising immaterial psychic reality. He introduces the term anti alpha-function, to name the process, linked with projective identification, operating in the mind of both patient and analyst, by which painful depressive-position experience may be evaded. He suggests this kind of mental functioning is far more widespread in society than is immediately apparent, accounting for serious distortions in our collective relationship to reality.
作者提出需要一个术语来描述人类思维将非感官心理现象具体化的普遍原始倾向。借鉴比昂的思维理论，他认为存在一个积极的过程，通过这个过程，α元素被转化为β元素，然后β元素可以伪装成可理解的感觉数据。这个过程通过一系列临床案例进行识别和说明，在这些案例中，分析师倾向于将患者的素材当作是在真实描述具体的外部现实，而不是在掩饰非物质的心理现实。他引入了“反α功能”这个术语来命名这个与投射性认同相关的过程，它在患者和分析师的头脑中运作，通过这个过程可以逃避痛苦的抑郁位态体验。他认为这种心理功能在社会中的广泛程度远比乍看之下要高，这导致了我们与现实的集体关系出现严重扭曲。
