Incestuous Symbiosis
乱伦共生
These currents came to a focus in the incest episode. On both sides of the relationship there was a regressive dissolution of ego boundaries and a flooding of instinctual material. The incestuous involvement answered to and derived from intense and highly ambivalent instinctual needs on the part of both mother and son. I would be persuaded that in the present case the incest was a manifestation of psychotic regression on both parts. It was in a sense a genital reaffirmation of the symbiotic union—with all of its intense longings for closeness, dependency, union—as well as with all of its intense murderousness, destructiveness, sadism, and fears of engulfment. From the mother's side it can be seen as motivated in part by intense needs to preserve her faltering sense of inner integrity and wholeness by embracing that part of herself that had become detached in him.
这些暗流在乱伦事件中达到了焦点。在双方的关系中,都出现了自我界限的退行性消解和本能材料的泛滥。乱伦关系回应并源自于母亲和儿子双方强烈且高度矛盾的本能需求。我会确信,在当前案例中,乱伦是双方精神病性退行的表现。从某种意义上说,它是对共生联盟的生殖器再肯定——带着对亲密、依赖、联合的所有强烈渴望——以及伴随着所有强烈的谋杀欲、破坏性、施虐狂和对被吞噬的恐惧。从母亲的角度来看,这在一定程度上是出于强烈的需求,即通过拥抱她在他身上已经分离出来的那部分自我,来保持她摇摇欲坠的内心完整感和整体感。
In thinking about the impact of this relationship on Fred, we can be sure that it contributed significantly and deeply to his pathology. The pathological symbiosis made it impossible for him to achieve any meaningful separation from his mother, so that any attempts to move in the direction of greater separateness or autonomy were met by her murderous and sadistic attacks. Built into these attacks was a blaming process that held him to be responsible in some sense for her own sense of inner frustration and emptiness. His sense of separateness and autonomy was jeopardized therefore externally. It was also jeopardized internally. The introjective process which derived from his need to cling to her as the symbiotic object and to preserve the slender and ambivalent ties to her resulted in the internalization of a highly pathogenic and destructive introject. The aggressive components that were derived from his mother's own murderous destructiveness and from his own internal murderous aggressiveness were amalgamated and fused in the inner introjects. These highly destructive elements remained poorly integrated and constituted fragments of his highly sadistic and destructive superego.
在思考这段关系对弗雷德的影响时,我们可以肯定的是,它对他的病理产生了重大而深远的影响。病态的共生关系使他无法与母亲实现任何有意义的分离,因此任何朝着更大分离或自主方向的努力都会遭到她谋杀和施虐的攻击。这些攻击中包含着一种归责过程,在某种意义上,这使他对她自己内心挫折和空虚的感受负有责任。因此,他的分离感和自主性在外部受到了威胁。它也在内部受到了威胁。内摄过程源于他需要依附母亲作为共生对象,并保持与她脆弱而矛盾的联系,这导致了对一个高度致病性和破坏性的内摄物的内化。来自他母亲自己的谋杀破坏性和他自己内部的谋杀攻击性的攻击性成分在内摄物中合并和融合。这些高度破坏性的元素仍然整合不良,构成了他高度施虐和破坏性的超我的碎片。