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MELLO, Renata  e  HERZOG, Regina. Subjectivity and defense in the works of Michael Balint. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2008, vol.8, n.4, pp. 1121-1142. ISSN 1518-6148.

Currently we can observe the diffusion of the so-called tough patients in psychoanalytic clinic. These patients have proven resistant to the classic psychoanalysis technique, leading to the necessity of relying on their psychic dynamics, aiming at a broader understanding of what is at stake in these cases. It can be observed that the subjectivation process relates to a precocious traumatic experience that touches the relation of the individual with what is external to him. Because of the overwhelming intensity provoked by the trauma, elementary protection measures are mobilized in order to prevent a narcissistic collapse. The defense then becomes the preferred way through which psychism constitutes itself, which translates into a meaningful impoverishment of subjective life. In an attempt to understand this dynamic and propose a direction for the psychic treatment, we will resort to Michael Balint's ideas about primary object relations, as his thinking offers important elements for a renewal of the understanding of both the analytical practice and the very psychic dynamic we currently see. In regards to Balint's ideas, we will hold on to his primary love theory and to the question of the modalities of defensive links - ocnophilia and philobatism - given the lack of loving of the primordial objects, ideas that can provide subsidies to deal with these tough patients.

Palavras-chave : subjectivity; object relations; basic fault; defense; Michael Balint.

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