Pubescence: A psychoanalytic study of one girl's experience of puberty

Fischer, Ruth M.S.

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“…In other words, Dorothy is no longer at home in herself, her body is no longer a home-even as her house in the dream is literally no longer at home, but some place unfamiliar, unheimlich, and uncanny. And indeed, every young girl awakens one day to discover that she is "not in Kansas anymore," but has somehow arrived in a watery technicolor realm she has hitherto only dreamed of-a realm impossible to get to, as Dorothy says, "by a boat or a train," because it can only be reached in time, a realm in which she is celebrated and grand, but also destructive and persecuted (Fischer 1991).…”

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Cyclones, Bi-Cycles, and Psychoanalysis: the Witch-of-Us? Complex and the Wizard of Oz

Stern

2003

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Works of applied psychoanalysis normally use psychoanalytic theory to reveal the secret meanings of works of art. An attempt is made to reverse the directionality of such analyses and see whether a work of art, The Wizard of Oz, has something to teach psychoanalysis about adolescent female psychosexual development. The author argues that the popularity and importance of the film is an effect of its symbolic representation of a girl's entry into menarche, and the meaning of this milestone for herself and for her mother. He addresses ideas about feminine castration fears (or what more recently have been called fears of genital injury), issues about menopause, and fantasies--both surprising and violent--around the meanings of menarche for both mother and daughter.

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“…One I've not found in the literature, although much is written about the fears girls have of their own aggression; see for exampleFischer 1991; Bassin 1996, p. 164; Frenkel 1996, p. 145; and especially Holtzman and Kulish 2000 and their important conceptualization of triangular development in women in terms of a Persephone complex.…”

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Cyclones, Bi-Cycles, and Psychoanalysis: the Witch-of-Us? Complex and the Wizard of Oz

Stern

2003

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Superego Functioning Following CS Readministration Procedures: Case Illustration

Yalof¹,

Rosenstein²

2013

Journal of Personality Assessment

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The Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003) has specific procedures to address brief Rorschach protocols when the first administration yields fewer than 14 responses. These procedures involve the assessor's asking the client to retake the test by providing more responses on the second administration than the first administration. The request carries with it an implicit criticism of the client's initial effort and a mandate to improve performance on retake. The retake request, with its ambiguously worded demand for improved performance, engages the client's superego (i.e., the client feels judged) and makes it possible to study superego manifestations (e.g., guilt, shame) on the Rorschach test, using a model of (a) brief first record, (b) retake directive, and (c) second administration. We present a case that illustrates a clinical strategy, modeled on a psychoanalytic understanding of the CS retake procedure, for studying the client's superego functioning under retest conditions.

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Fertility in the Transference: Analytic Collaboration and Reproductive Conflicts

Oscharoff¹

2001

The Psychoanalytic Review

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Pubescence: A psychoanalytic study of one girl's experience of puberty

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Cyclones, Bi-Cycles, and Psychoanalysis: the Witch-of-Us? Complex and the Wizard of Oz

Cyclones, Bi-Cycles, and Psychoanalysis: the Witch-of-Us? Complex and the Wizard of Oz

Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Superego Functioning Following CS Readministration Procedures: Case Illustration

Fertility in the Transference: Analytic Collaboration and Reproductive Conflicts

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