Failure in transitionality and addictions

resentment as destiny

Abstract

This article, a synthesis of what was exposed at the SBPdePA conference table, focuses on the condition of failure in the construction of the transitionality process and relates this fact to an addiction to the object, built from resentment as a preponderant subjective position. Winnicott conceives transitionality as an intermediate area between two realities: the initial one of absolute dependence, marked by the baby’s illusion of that creates everything you need and the shared objective reality, capable of recognizing the difference between I-Not Me. The disruptive factor, inherent to this inaugural passage, through transitional processes, which promote the non-traumatic dimension of the experience of differentiation, can encounter the violence of the factual and assume adverse fates. Therefore, this rupture in the continuity of the baby’s being then becomes the path to the formation of resentment. The table’s provocation to think about the fate of the failure of transitionality provided a channel to understand resentment as an addictive fate of this vicissitude. Trapped in this subjective position, the subject becomes addictively attached to an object for which he believes he was ruined, making revenge for the injury suffered on the axis of his investments.