INTROJECTION AS DAMAGING OF THE SYMBOLIC SPACE - A STUDY ABOUT THE PSYCHOSEXUAL GENESIS OF MENTAL DISABILITY

Every symbol formation is based on the capacity for phantasies being i ndependent from situations, that develops through introjection. Its de velopment according to the model of the development of introjects of F lincke, is due to the neutralization of established, instinctive actio n impulses through opposite and likewise inborn inhibitions. Here, I p ostulate a comparable process for the socialization of mental disabili ty: in this case also vital active life impulses and the fright reacti on, the reflex of pretending to be dead or the escape reaction are the two opposite reactive patterns. On the basis of special socialization circumstances they forcedly form a unity, that finds its expression i ndividually as interaction-engramm. The fusion of impulse and inhibiti on in the basic introject and in the following introjects based on it is progressive, as in the social space it cancels out the feeling of t he individual of being tied to the body, in favour of the symbolic med iation. In opposite, the fusion of early intentional gestures with ref lex movements leads to the fixation of the individual in the body and to the exclosure of these reflex-bounded gestures from the cultural sy mbolic context.