Abstract

TRINCA, Ana Maria T.. O morto e o vivo. Psic [online]. 2002, vol.3, n.2, pp. 14-19. ISSN 1676-7314.

The permanence and influence of a dead person in an individual's mental life is discussed drawing on psychoanalytic references. True facts, by superposing the peculiarities of a child's psychic functioning in a certain stage of his/her psychosexual development, determine increased fantasies and personal interpretation of facts. The issue of death is focused from the development of fantasies by a five-year-old child, who loses his father in a murder and has to undergo a phimosis surgery. The author describes the way the child unconsciously keeps his dead father in his mind, who thus becomes alive and persecutive. New life experiences introduced into a predetermined historical context make the child bring foregoing emotional situations to his present time. Fears, castration anxieties, and use of defense mechanisms are emphasized with colorfulness peculiar to Oedipean configurations.

Keywords : Death; Oedipus complex; Child surgery; Psychoanalysis.

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