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020			_a9781622731039
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040			_aFR-PaCSA _ben _c _erda
100	1		_aBehrendt, Ralf
245	0	1	_aSelf-Preservation at the Centre of Personality _bSuperego and Ego Ideal in the Regulation of Safety _c['Behrendt, Ralf']
264		1	_bVernon Press _c2016
300			_a p.
336			_btxt _2rdacontent
337			_bc _2rdamdedia
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700	0		_aBehrendt, Ralf
856	4	0	_2Cyberlibris _uhttps://international.scholarvox.com/netsen/book/88837031 _qtext/html _a
520			_aThe book discusses personality as a unified set of evolved and culturally developed structures that serves a single and definable purpose, to maintain the individual’s safety, in the context of dyadic relationships, group processes and more abstract and fluid social configurations. The infant-mother relationship remains the blueprint for modes of relating to the social surround, at whatever level of complexity, and for approximating the sense of safety originally provided by the mother. The personality is organized around the need to maintain self-esteem, thereby preserving the individual’s sense of safety and warding off deep-seated paranoid anxiety, which signals the potential of annihilation of the self. Paranoid anxiety is the counterpart of intraspecific aggression and the potential of the group as a whole to attack and annihilate the individual. Paranoid anxiety, which was recognized by Melanie Klein as playing a critical role in infant development, is not overcome as development proceeds but remains latent, buried under layers of personality organization that are essentially concerned with sourcing recognition and approval from the social environment, thereby inhibiting others’ aggression and guarding against annihilation of the self. The book adds to self psychology (Kohut) by showing how the principle of self-preservation underpins all aspects of normal and abnormal character dynamics. It integrates self psychology with other branches psychoanalytic theory and revives the link between psychoanalysis and ethology. Ethology (Lorenz, Hass, Eibl-Eibesfeldt) has provided insights into how interrelated intraspecific aggression and appeasement gestures are critically important for the evolution of social behavior in higher animals as well as cultural evolution in humans, insights that allow, more generally, for a bridging of the gap between psychoanalysis and the biology of social behavior. Furthermore, an evolutionary approach to character dynamics and related cultural and social phenomena will have important implications for understanding psychopathological vulnerabilities and self-perpetuating processes in mental illness.
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