Abstract

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.

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

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