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Disappointment and disappointedness.

R Schafer

    The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
    |February 12, 2000
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    This study highlights the under-researched affective experience of disappointedness, presenting it as a distinct pathological organization. Recognizing disappointedness offers greater clinical insight into unconscious fantasies and analytic impasses.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Psychoanalysis
    • Clinical Psychology

    Background:

    • The affective experience of disappointment is widespread but under-analyzed in psychoanalytic literature.
    • Disappointedness is often subsumed under concepts like depressiveness or masochism, losing its distinct clinical significance.

    Observation:

    • Disappointedness is conceptualized as a pathological organization or character disorder.
    • It manifests specific unconscious fantasies and disrupts transference-countertransference dynamics.
    • The author emphasizes disappointedness as a unique clinical issue, not merely descriptive.

    Findings:

    • Heightened clinical awareness of disappointment and disappointedness is beneficial.
    • This awareness can improve access to understanding compromise formations that hinder analytic work.

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  • A case example illustrates the practical application and benefits of this focus.

    • Implications:

    • Clinicians may gain deeper insights into specific patient dynamics by recognizing disappointedness.
    • This approach could refine psychoanalytic treatment strategies for certain characterological issues.
    • Further research into disappointedness as a distinct clinical entity is warranted.