The outsider phenomenon and the need to belong.

Fairbairn belonging large group identity object relations outsider

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American journal of psychoanalysis

ISSN: 1573-6741

Titre abrégé: Am J Psychoanal

Pays: England

ID NLM: 0372630

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Date de publication:
18 Mar 2024

Historique:

medline: 19 3 2024

pubmed: 19 3 2024

entrez: 19 3 2024

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The outsider phenomenon is an existential pathology interrelated with the need to belong. It is a group related experience that has developmental foundations. W. R. D. Fairbairn (1952), was one of the first psychoanalysts who systematically challenged Freudian theory, and located the human experience within social relationships. Fairbairn (1935) suggested that the family is the first social group, leading to affiliations with important groups external to the family. This paper extrapolates from Fairbairn's ideas about schizoid character, which is an interpersonal experience, to group experiences in a family and with identity groups. Fairbairn's notions about the unavoidable activation of schizoid processes may help us understand what makes the outsider experience so pervasive.

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DOI: 10.1057/s11231-024-09433-1 PMID: 38499743

pubmed: 38499743

doi: 10.1057/s11231-024-09433-1

pii: 10.1057/s11231-024-09433-1

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eng

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