By Phil Mollon
In "The Fragile Self" Dr Mollon argues that psycho--analysis calls for an enough idea of self with a view to handle successfully these states of brain during which a disturbed experience of self is trendy. He discusses issues of the self from various issues of view, drawing specific cognizance to the paintings of Kohut and describing its strengths and obstacles. Mollon argues broader "taxonomy" of disturbances of self is needed and is going directly to enhance his personal thesis that the sufferers in psychotherapy or research are usually unconsciously looking a wanted development--enhancing reaction from the therapist. The therapista s job is to acknowledge what this want is and to articulate it to the sufferer. during this means, the hitherto lonely and unreached components of the character might be contacted amd built-in. In exploring those matters, many elements of psycho--analytic technique and procedure are re--examined.
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The ‘I’ is the actor, whilst the ‘Me’ is a simultaneous anticipation of how the actor will be seen. Mead saw the ‘I’ and the ‘Me’ within the personality as in constant communica tion with each other. The ‘Me’ anticipates the reaction to what the ‘I’ is about to do; the ‘I’ then acts upon what the ‘Me’ has just felt, and so on. In this way, Mead describes a kind of communicative balance between the ‘I’, the ‘Me’ and the other – a balance which, as we shall see, is disturbed in persons with narcissistic pathology.
Narcissus’s origins are preceded by the pronouncement that he should not know himself, that he should remain in ignorance of who he is and where he comes from. This foreshadows the tragic events to follow as Narcissus becomes trapped in his incapacity to recognise him self. Tiresias’s pronouncement also foretells that Narcissus’ search for his self will lead to his death at the pool. A ‘narcissistic’ quality is apparent in the character of Narcissus: his aloofness, his spurning of all his admirers’ attentions – his ‘pride so cold that no youth, no maiden touched his heart’.
This definition clearly refers primarily to categories 1 and 3 and perhaps also 4. One of the conceptual problems in relying solely on this defini tion is that the notion of a self-representation implies an image that a person has of him- or herself, just as he or she has images of others; thus there must be another self which is observing and evaluating and forming an image of the self (the subjective self). To this extent the con cept does not quite capture the immediate experiencing self and its dis turbances, and the relationship between subjective and objective aspects of self.