2nd Prague conference
otto fenichel
AND HIS LEGACY

Clinical manifestation of developmental trauma and various levels of identification are shown in two short case fragments to demonstrate analyst`s experience with mutually interwoven clinical and social reality. Analyst capacity to recover his analytic function is explored including identification of post-traumatic changes interfering with analyst`s potential to be sadistic and hateful. Presentation will address aspects of bad and totalitarian object and also role of relatively traumatic maternal unavailability.