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2. „Possibly, a revised negative practice would not concern itself with individuality, personal well-being, or the pursuit of pleasure, but would instead engage with destructiveness and interconnectedness. The involvement of the psychoanalyst and the analysand would not happen with the intention of escaping the call of death but within it. Such a practice could work with the form of its embodiment, at the intersection between destruction and creation. In Spielreinian psychoanalytic practice [du weißt!], the emphasis wouldn’t lie on aiding survival but on involvement in the process of self-dissolution through practising the art of loving and dying.“ (Reshe)
3. „The rectum but also the mouth and the vagina, all penetrable orifices, have the potential to be graves in which „proud subjectivity is buried“ (Wanyoung Kim-Murphy)
4. „A young girl read stories of witches with great joy; as a child, she often played at being a witch; analysis shows that the witch in the girl’s fantasies represents the mother with whom the girl identifies. For the girl, the stories are pleasurably tinged only in so far as the mother’s life is pleasurable for her. The girl may even choose to emulate her mother’s life. The stories are mere allegories on which the feeling-tone is displaced; they are a substitute for the „desired,“ the life story lived by the mother. The witch stories would not be pleasurable for the girl without the experience of the mother. In this sense, „all passing things“ are only allegories, perhaps of the unknown primal experiences, that seek analogues in the present. Thus, we experience nothing in the present since we project a feeling-tone onto a current Image. (Spielrein, 1994, p. 157)“
5. „(b) Der sadomasochistische Charakter. Es gibt nun auch masochistische Persönlichkeitsstrukturen von weniger hohem Niveau, die wahrscheinlich irgendwo im »mittleren Bereich« unserer kontinuierlichen Reihe einzuordnen sind; ein typisches Beispiel hierfür ist der sogenannte »sadomasochistische« Charakter. Zu dieser Kategorie dürfte wohl auch ein Gutteil der sogenannten »help-rejecting complainers« (Frank et al. 1952) [Patienten, die immer wieder ihre Beschwerden vorbringen, sich aber doch nicht helfen lassen] zu rechnen sein. Manche infantilen Persönlichkeiten weisen ebenfalls solche Züge auf. Masochistische und sadistische Charakterzüge sind hierbei regelmäßig in irgendeiner Form miteinander verquickt, der typische Perfektionismus der Depressiven fehlt, und die sadistischen Triebabkömmlinge manifestieren sich unmittelbarer in impulsiven Charakterzügen. Im Gegensatz zur oben beschriebenen Patientengruppe mit depressiven Persönlichkeitsstörungen von »höherem Niveau« kommen unter den hier beschriebenen Charaktertypen mitunter auch Borderline-Patienten vor.“ (Kernberg)
6. „In love, one adopts the manifold mannerisms of the other; likewise, their inclinations and disinclinations, their enjoyments as well as their fears; one even assumes new enemies out of courtesy! Most importantly, one sacrifices a large portion of one’s enjoyment, and grants partial ownership of it to the beloved. The beloved, therefore, grows immensely in strength for it now possesses the key to either gratification or frustration, neither of which readily lend themselves to moderation in a satisfactory manner; the moderation of enjoyment is perhaps the Sisyphean task par excellence for one, like a pendulum, tirelessly swings between absence and excess. For this reason, the other, whom one loves, is always at once the person whose warm touch turns most readily into a frozen blow.“ (Peter Prosen)
7. „Daran schloss der US-amerikanische Neurologe Beard mit seiner Diagnose der »Neurasthenie« an, welche Nervenkrankheiten auf bedrohliche gesellschaftliche Faktoren wie[…]die zunehmende geistige Aktivität von Frauen zurückführte.“
(Juliane Hummitzsch, Hyperaktivität & Erregungsüberschüsse)