The Importance of Promoting a Sense of Self-Agency in Child Psychoanalysis

[...]this paper attempts to open a conversation that other investigators can expand in the future. "First of all, the intrinsic motivation to order one's universe is an imperative of mental life. .. Over time the infant learns to communicate more specifically to receive the equally specifi...

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Published in:The Psychoanalytic study of the child 2018, Vol.71 (1), p.108-122
Main Author: Sugarman, Alan
Format: Article
Language:English
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Children & youth
Pathogenesis
Psychoanalysis
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Summary:[...]this paper attempts to open a conversation that other investigators can expand in the future. "First of all, the intrinsic motivation to order one's universe is an imperative of mental life. .. Over time the infant learns to communicate more specifically to receive the equally specific soothing or gratification needed. [...]at around 8-9 months of age ... infants come to differentiate actions from their outcomes and represent actions as means that function to bring about goal states. [...]internalization, identification with internalized rules, and self-responsibility as a part of normal superego development largely fail; instead these children feel entitled to narcissistic gratification.
ISSN:0079-7308
2474-3356
DOI:10.1080/00797308.2017.1415065