Flesh of my flesh
contributions on toxic and traumatic links
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https://doi.org/10.60106/rsbppa.v21i2.709Keywords:
Forclosure of the affect, Helplessness, Toxic and traumatic linksAbstract
This paper looks to the pathologies of helplessness, supported by David Maldavsky’s writings and his singular and thorough reading of Freud’s theory. Intersubjective bonds, especially family ones, can promote the development of subjectivity as well as disturb it. There are family structures governed by a primitive, non-differentiated, indiscriminate intercorporeal nexus arising from an apparently paradoxical form of intragroup libidinal circulation, characterized on the one hand by excessive attachment between the members and, on the other, by an affective disconnection. This linking modality is sustained by a state of awareness without awareness and disinvestment of attention associated with a libidinal hypertrophy that, instead of investing the stimuli of the world, takes as its object part of the body of others. The space of intimacy where skin-to-skin contact would take place with respect to mutual sensoryity and tenderness is replaced by a form of contact that Maldavsky (1996) called ‘flesh of my flesh’.
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