Le Poulichet, Sylvie <br/><br/>
The Unconscious Identification with the Phantom 

 -  2012.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The concept of unconscious identification with the phantom enables us to clarify the processes at work in a situation in which identification with the dead object does not generate a classical melancholic clinical picture, but instead a reversal in the order of generations, involving denial and a splitting of the ego. Based on clinical psychoanalysis, the author demonstrates that often at least two deaths in successive generations have occurred to produce an unconscious identification with the ghost, in a context in which Oedipal triangulation fails. Episodes of transitory delusion may often reveal this identification, which could give way to an excorporation of the dead in the course of the treatment, implying sometimes a fragmentation of the body as a precondition for the mourning.