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Fairbairn & Guntrip: Origins of Object-Relations

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

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Analyzing Relationships

When a person has desires and is not able to satisfy them, when they are systematically frustrated, he turns against his own desires. He becomes anti libidna. He starts holding his needs in contempt. For example, an anarexia, the need for food, is seen as temptible,. One refuses one's food, one refuses to eat. The very desire for food is seen to be humiliating. Is felt as humiliating. So this is all the work of the internal savater, the hostile, sadistic work of the of the sabateur that excites and then rejects and then attacks. And t happens all over the place when people try to have relationships with one another.

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