Annual of the lnternational Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy X, 1984. pp. 501-541
Abstract
W. R. Bion (1952) has pointed out a connection between alterations in the development of the “apparatus for thinking thoughts” and psychosomatic symptoms. Many authors have used this insight, from their own points of view, as a basis for describing this deficiency in thought and in the capacity to formulate images related to the development of psychosomatic symptoms (Krystal & McDougall 1979; Segai, 1950,1958). This paper applies this hypothesis to a clinical case in which special emphasis is given to the symbolic deficiency, its effect on transference-counter-transference, and its relation to falsification, “hypo-symbolization,” and to a specific phenomenon that could be called “hyper-symbolization,” in which many meanings are embodied in the same symbol
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