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Fabricated bodies: a model for the somatic false self.

Peter Goldberg1

  • 1909 Ordway Avenue, Albany, CA 94706, USA. plgoldberg@excite.com

The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
|August 18, 2004
PubMed
Summary

This study explores how individuals achieve psychical security by detaching from bodily vitality, creating a fabricated self through psychosomatic control. This dissociation masks the body

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Psychoanalysis

Background:

  • Individuals may achieve psychical security via radical detachment from bodily vitality.
  • This detachment necessitates psychosomatic control and autostimulation for self-enlivenment.
  • Personality organization may involve systematic dissociation of mental and somatic realms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the phenomenon of achieving psychical security through bodily detachment.
  • To understand the mechanisms of psychosomatic control and artificial self-enlivenment.
  • To highlight the clinical presentation and diagnostic challenges of somatic false-self organization.

Main Methods:

  • Clinical observation and analysis of patient presentations.
  • Examination of personality structures involving dissociation and pseudo-integration.
  • Focus on psychophysical cues and shifts in states of consciousness during treatment.

Main Results:

  • A transmutation of the psyche-soma occurs, replacing the desiring body with a fabricated one.
  • The body is utilized in a 'realistic' manner, obscuring symptomatic presentation.
  • Successful somatic false-self organization is disguised as natural, ego-syntonic, and socially normative.

Conclusions:

  • The colonization of the body in false-self organization is often covert and ego-syntonic.
  • Effective treatment requires expanded analytic attention to consciousness and psychophysical cues.
  • Understanding this dynamic is crucial for addressing complex psychosomatic presentations.

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