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Developmental aspects of self-esteem in the analysis of an 11-year-old boy
1Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
This paper explores the vicissitudes of self-esteem in the analysis of an 11-year-old boy. The paper highlights the complex interplay from different developmental periods that underlies the growth and sustaining of self-esteem. This interplay, catalyzed in the crucible of the transference, includes issues of evolution of affect states, self-structure, object relations, psychosexual development, conflict, and defenses.