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Erotism and chaos.

P L Giovacchini

    The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
    |January 1, 1990
    PubMed
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    Erotic feelings evolve from basic homeostasis to mature love, serving to organize primitive psychic states. This affective binding can be painful, disrupting psychological equilibrium and therapeutic relationships.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Psychoanalysis
    • Affective Science

    Background:

    • Feelings exist on a continuum from basic homeostatic states to complex erotic affects.
    • Affects are linked to psychic integration and structure, influencing psychological functioning.
    • Sigmund Freud's work on anxiety provides a framework for understanding affect development.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore the organizing function of affects, particularly erotic feelings, in early psychological development.
    • To examine how erotic feelings attempt to bind primitive inner chaos in a prementational neonatal stage.
    • To analyze the painful and disruptive nature of affective binding and structuralization.

    Main Methods:

    • Clinical case studies illustrating affective binding and its consequences.

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  • Reference to psychoanalytic theory on anxiety and instinctual impulses.
  • Analysis of therapeutic relationships where sexual acting out occurred.

    • Main Results:

    • Erotic feelings emerge to manage undifferentiated inner agitation and psychic chaos.
    • The process of affective binding and structuralization can be inherently painful and disruptive.
    • Sexual acting out in therapy can lead to the breakdown of the therapeutic setting.

    Conclusions:

    • Affects, especially erotic feelings, play a crucial role in organizing the psyche from its earliest stages.
    • The attempt to achieve psychic calm through affective binding can paradoxically cause distress.
    • Dysfunctional therapeutic relationships involving sexual acting out highlight the fragility of psychic structure.