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Expressão no rorschach dos fenómenos transitivos e do espaço potencial na personalidade borderline
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Abstract(s)
Pretendemos compreender, à luz do método Rorschach, as características dos
fenómenos transitivos e do espaço potencial no sujeito borderline. O estudo destes conceitos é
desenvolvido tendo por base as teorias de Winnicott e Ogden sobre a psicopatologia dos
fenómenos transitivos e do espaço potencial, respectivamente. Reconhecida a importância dos
cuidados primários no acesso a estas áreas intermediárias da experiência, procuramos articular
o conceito de função materna com os conceitos em estudo. De igual forma, para uma melhor
compreensão destes conceitos no caso borderline, procuramos relacioná-los com ao conceito
de angústia branca de Green.
O método Rorschach é perspectivado na sua dimensão intersubjectiva e dinâmica, em que o
apelo a um duplo modo de funcionamento (perceptivo e projectivo) permite uma
compreensão mais aprofundada da dinâmica relacional entre o interno e o externo, no espaço
psíquico do sujeito borderline. É elaborada uma leitura dos conceitos de fenómenos
transitivos e de espaço potencial, procurando integrar e articular a revisão de literatura e os
elementos Rorschach. É neste contexto que se realiza a aplicação do Rorschach a um sujeito
do sexo feminino com o diagnóstico de perturbação borderline da personalidade.
Da análise do protocolo destacamos que, apesar da impossibilidade de estabelecer uma
relação intersubjectiva entre o real e o imaginário, o interno e o externo, o sujeito é capaz de
mobilizar estratégias arcaicas que lhe permitem um contacto mínimo com o outro. Estas
estratégias caracterizam o fenómeno transitivo neste sujeito borderline. A procura de apoio,
de amortecimento de vivências mais angustiantes dá conta da utilização do outro como um
objecto de suporte (indicador da carência do holding), permitindo uma separação e
comunicação ténue entre sujeito e objecto. A imagem Rorschach criada pelo sujeito é
experimentada como um objecto real, adquirindo a função (de suporte) e as qualidades
(reconfortantes) de um objecto transitivo. Os movimentos do sujeito dão conta de uma
aproximação ao espaço potencial – espaço pré-potencial.
ABSTRACT: This study uses the Rorschach method in order to understand the characteristics of both transitional phenomena and potential space in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPO). The approach to the aforementioned concepts follows respectively Winnicott and Ogden’s theories about transitional phenomena and potential space psychopathology. Acknowledging the importance of care in the early stages of life for one’s accession to these intermediary zones of experience, we envisage articulating the concepts under analysis with motherhood function. Furthermore, for a better comprehension of both concepts in the context of BPO we also relate it with Green’s white anguish. Inter-subjective and dynamic features of the Rorschach Method, both of which call for a double working mode (perceptive and projective), are herewith used eventually leading to a deeper understanding of the existing relational dynamics “internal-external” in the psychic space of borderline patients. Thus, the main concepts under analysis are interpreted in the light of a literature review on both concepts, which is duly articulated with Rorschach elements. In this context we have applied the Rorschach method to a female individual who had been previously diagnosed BPO. The analysis performed to the protocol demonstrates the patient’s ability to apply very basic strategies in order to enter into a minimum contact with external objects, though she is not capable of establishing an inter-subjective relation between fantasy and reality or between internal world and external world. The said strategies characterize the transitional phenomena in the specific case of this patient. The look for support, the mitigation of anguish-based experiences shows that the object is used as a support (a lack of holding indicator). This evidences a slight separation and communication between subject and object. The patient with BPO experiences the Rorschach image as if it was a real object that bears the function (holding) and the (cheering) characteristics of a transitional object. These strategies points to an approximation to a potential space, i.e., a pre-potential space.
ABSTRACT: This study uses the Rorschach method in order to understand the characteristics of both transitional phenomena and potential space in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPO). The approach to the aforementioned concepts follows respectively Winnicott and Ogden’s theories about transitional phenomena and potential space psychopathology. Acknowledging the importance of care in the early stages of life for one’s accession to these intermediary zones of experience, we envisage articulating the concepts under analysis with motherhood function. Furthermore, for a better comprehension of both concepts in the context of BPO we also relate it with Green’s white anguish. Inter-subjective and dynamic features of the Rorschach Method, both of which call for a double working mode (perceptive and projective), are herewith used eventually leading to a deeper understanding of the existing relational dynamics “internal-external” in the psychic space of borderline patients. Thus, the main concepts under analysis are interpreted in the light of a literature review on both concepts, which is duly articulated with Rorschach elements. In this context we have applied the Rorschach method to a female individual who had been previously diagnosed BPO. The analysis performed to the protocol demonstrates the patient’s ability to apply very basic strategies in order to enter into a minimum contact with external objects, though she is not capable of establishing an inter-subjective relation between fantasy and reality or between internal world and external world. The said strategies characterize the transitional phenomena in the specific case of this patient. The look for support, the mitigation of anguish-based experiences shows that the object is used as a support (a lack of holding indicator). This evidences a slight separation and communication between subject and object. The patient with BPO experiences the Rorschach image as if it was a real object that bears the function (holding) and the (cheering) characteristics of a transitional object. These strategies points to an approximation to a potential space, i.e., a pre-potential space.
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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto Universitário
Keywords
Rorschach Fenómeno transitivo Espaço potencial Borderline Função materna Transitional phenomena Potential space Borderline Motherhood function