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GURFINKEL, Decio. Addictions: from drive perversion to transitional object pathology. Psyche (Sao Paulo) [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.20, pp.13-28. ISSN 1415-1138.

This work considers some initial lines of direction for a historical-conceptual study of psychoanalytical approach to addictions. The analysis focuses on the transition from a drive model to the gradual emphasis on the object relation, following Greenberg & Mitchell's conception. The purpose is to present and to discuss, in a preliminary way, the nature of such transition. Abraham's and Winnicott's works are taken as typical examples of these two approaches; Klein's work figures as a necessary bridge between the two. We note an evolution form a fetishist model to the problematic of transitional object pathology, and a change of emphasis from an oral erotism and “internal good breast” to the role of external object vitality. Rosenfeld and Bollas conceptions of addictions are analyzed under this perspective.

Palabras clave : Addictions; Drive; Object relation; Fetishism; Transitional object; Psychoanalysis history.

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