The Dynamic Interplay of Mourning and Forgiveness in the Early Development of the Self and Psychic Structure

2014 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric D. Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychic Structure ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

Introduction to Volume 8

2016 ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Ann Horne
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
The Self ◽  
Real Object ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Use Of An Object

The Introduction to Volume 8 elicits the key concepts Winnicott was developing in 1967-68, beginning in January 1967 with his talk on his own theories of development at the ‘52 Club, citing those who influenced him and those from whom he acquired ideas. The author proceeds to examine ‘The Use of an Object’, viewed by Claire Winnicott as the culmination of his thinking, a talk given at the NYPSI in November 1968. There is comment on Winnicott’s approach to observation and the scientific method, on culture and playing, and a fuller picture of friends and interests from the 1967 IPA conference. Failures in early development are explored but the main focus is the emergence of the self as real and the recognition of a real object that can be used (from ‘Mirror-role of mother and family’ to ‘The use of an object’) and the parallel between the early mother-infant relationship and the analyst-patient relationship. Thoughts on technique conclude the paper.

scholarly journals Affects, Attunements and the Intersubjective Self: Perspectives from Early Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ((1)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Seligman
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
The Self ◽  
Intersubjective Self ◽  
Affect Attunement ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Infant Observation

This paper conceptualizes the self and related concepts so as to emphasize interrelatedness rather than autonomy. From this view of a subject embedded in relationships as a point of departure, it then critiques and restates certain analyticallyoriented concepts so as to render them in a more fully intersubjective frame: “affect attunement” (Stern, 1985), “mirroring” (Kohut, 1977), empathy, and projective identification. This approach draws on drawing on the infant observation research that has emerged in recent decades.

scholarly journals Early development of the self-fertilizing mangrove killifish Rivulus marmoratus reared in the laboratory

2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Vivian Camacho Grageda ◽  
Yoshitaka Sakakura ◽  
Atsushi Hagiwara
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
The Self ◽  
Rivulus Marmoratus ◽  
Mangrove Killifish

Extreme vertebral variation induced by temperature in a homozygous clone of the self-fertilizing cyprinodontid fish Rivulus marmoratus

1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 733-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Lindsey ◽  
Robert W. Harrington Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Gene Pool ◽  
The Self ◽  
Selective Mortality ◽  
Genetic Uniformity ◽  
Rivulus Marmoratus ◽  
Meristic Variation ◽  
Retinal Pigmentation ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Hatching Temperature

Embryos from one clone of Rivulus marmoratus were reared at various constant temperatures ranging from 19.5 to 31.2C, sustained throughout early development, or else were transferred from 26 to 20C after various periods of development. Resultant vertebral counts were progressively lower at higher sustained temperatures (ranging from 34.94 to 32.57). Vertebral differences expressed as a percentage of the total count were greater in this (7.0%) than in previously reported comparable experiments on 14 other fish species (4.1% or less). In most previous experiments meristic variation may have been due, at least in part, to selective mortality acting on a varied gene pool. In R. marmoratus the high degree of genetic uniformity eliminates the likelihood of selective mortality as a cause of vertebral variation, which must therefore have been environmentally induced. Pectoral ray counts also were lower at higher sustained temperatures; other meristic series did not show sharp responses. Temperature transfer experiments showed that vertebral counts are determined within 4 days at 26C (by first appearance of retinal pigmentation). Pectoral ray counts are not fully determined until about 8 days, shortly before hatching. Temperature breaks produced "shock effect" in pectoral rays but not in vertebrae. The bearing of homozygosity on amplitude of temperature-induced vertebral variation is discussed.

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