The Foreigner and the Foe, We Saw Them Both in the Mirror : Maturational Aspects of the Encounter with “the Foreign”

Authors

  • Chris Joaninidis Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Training Analyst of the Hellenical Psychoanalytical Society. He is also a full member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and the Group-Analytical Society (Int.).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i80.369

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, otherness, identification

Abstract

Otherness that is not internalizable and therefore not ending up being  incorporated  into the Ich, but standing before it, turns out to be a sine qua non for the very commencement of psychic and mental growth.

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Published

2020-11-30

How to Cite

Joaninidis, C. (2020). The Foreigner and the Foe, We Saw Them Both in the Mirror : Maturational Aspects of the Encounter with “the Foreign”. Free Associations, (80), 90–96. https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i80.369

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No. 80 (2020)

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