Mother, Melancholia, and Humor in Erik H. Erikson鈥檚 Earliest Writings

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• 作者：Donald Capps
• 关键词：Erik H. Erikson ; Narcissism ; Superego ; Mother ; Melancholia ; Humor
• 刊名：Journal of Religion and Health
• 出版时间：September, 2008
• 出版年：2008
• 期刊代码：24_00224197
• 类别：law
• 卷：47
• 期：3
• 页码：415-432
• 数据来源：sp

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Erik H. Erikson wrote three articles when he was in his late-twenties and an up-and-coming member of the psychoanalytic community in Vienna. At the time he wrote these articles, he was in a training psychoanalysis with Anna Freud, teaching at the Heitzing School in Vienna, and learning the Montessori method of teaching. These articles focus on the loss of primary narcissism and the development of the superego (or punitive conscience) in early childhood, especially through the child’s conflict with maternal authority. They support the idea that melancholia, with its internalized rage against the mother, is the inevitable outcome of the loss of primary narcissism. I note, however, that the third of these articles makes a case for the restorative role of humor, especially when Freud’s view that humor is a function of the superego is taken into account.