Abstract

ARAUJO, Teo Weingrill. Ruptures and continuities: a discussion about the life, work and legacy of the psychoanalyst Ronald Fairbairn. J. psicanal. [online]. 2014, vol.47, n.87, pp. 163-178. ISSN 0103-5835.

This article aims to discuss how the Scottish psychoanalyst Ronald Fairbairn is situated on the psychoanalytic tradition. The article calls attention to the condition of relative isolation in which he produced his work and to his insistent claim of being the founder of a new theoretical model. As an author who intends to discuss schizoid factors in the personality, it is clear that, to some extent, his position in the psychoanalytic tradition itself mimetizes the object which he proposes to discuss. Fairbairn teaches us that schizoidism is characterized precisely by isolation, by the distance between the 'I' and others and by the subject's claim of being the owner of a secret and original internal object. At the end of the article, we briefly review how contemporary psychoanalysts are using the author's work.

Keywords : Ronald Fairbairn; psychoanalytic theory; object relations; schizoidism.

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