Relation to Father
与父亲的关系
We shall return to this delusional thought, but we should first take into consideration Ann's relationship with her father. Searles comments that the histories of schizophrenic patients frequently present the father as the warmer and more accessible parent and the patient as more attached to the father than the distant and rejecting mother. The father is generally a rather infantile individual who responds to the child as a mother-figure. We have noted Ann's father's close and rather dependent relationship to his own mother. His caring solicitude for his mother seems to reflect his own dependent need for her and for her approval. This suggests that his relation with Ann was influenced by his own needs for approval and for enacting a warm mothering role. His warmly mothering and seductive approach to Ann, therefore, seems to have been generated from deeper levels of his own inner conflict. He intervened in the relationship between Ann and her mother in part to fulfill these inner needs, and in part to have Ann for himself—as he wished to have his mother for himself. The conflict which this set up for Ann between her own wishes for loving dependence and affectionate gratification and the more sexual and seductively threatening aspects of the relationship with her father were clear.
我们将回到这个妄想的想法,但我们应该首先考虑安、安娜和她父亲的关系。Searles评论说,精神分裂症患者的病史往往把父亲描述成更温暖、更容易接近,而病人则更依恋父亲,而不是那个疏远、排斥的母亲。父亲通常是一个相当幼稚的个体,对孩子的反应就像母亲的形象。我们注意到安娜的父亲与他自己的母亲[即安娜的奶奶]关系密切,而且相当依赖。他对母亲的关心似乎反映了他对母亲的依赖和对她的肯定。这表明,他与安娜的关系是受他自己的需要认可和扮演一个温暖的母亲角色的影响。因此,他对安娜热情的母爱和诱人的方式,似乎是从他自己内心深处的冲突中产生的。他介入安娜和她母亲之间的关系,一方面是为了满足这些内在的需求,另一方面是为了让安娜属于自己——就像他希望自己拥有母亲一样。这给安娜带来的冲突是很明显的,一方面时她自己希望爱的依赖和深情的满足,另一方面是她与父亲的关系中更具性和诱惑威胁的方面。
The father's solicitude and affection for Ann were not simply that, but were caught up at the same time in the hostile context of his relationship with his wife. In part his relationship with Ann gave him a certain amount of satisfaction and affective reward. It also was a way for him to assuage his guilt over his own failure to intervene more effectively between Ann and the destructive assaults from her mother. At the same time, however, the attention he paid her served as a provocation and a counterirritant directed to his wife. It was his way of thumbing his nose at his wife and putting her in second place, with the result that his relation to Ann was continually kept in the focus of the angry process of attack and counterattack that went on between the two parents.
父亲对安娜的关心和喜爱不仅如此,还与他与妻子的敌对关系交织在一起。在某种程度上,他与安娜的关系给了他一定的满足感和情感上的回报。这也是他减轻自己未能更有效地介入安娜和她母亲破坏性攻击之间的内疚感的一种方式。然而,与此同时,他对她的关注却成了对妻子的一种挑衅和反刺激。这是他对妻子不屑一顾,把她放在第二位的一种方式。结果,他和安娜的关系一直处于双方父母之间愤怒的攻击和反击的焦点。