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The Basic Fault - Therapeutic Aspects of Regression (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Basic Fault - Therapeutic Aspects of Regression (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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In this volume, Michael Balint, who over the years made a sustained
and brilliant contribution to the theory and technique of
psychoanalysis, develops the concept of the 'basic fault' in the
bio-psychology structure of every individual, involving in varying
degree both mind and body. Balint traces the origins of the basic
fault to the early formative period, during which serious
discrepancies arise between the needs of the individual and the
care and nurture available. These Discrepancies create a kind of
deficiency state. On the basis of this concept, Balint assumes the
existence of a specific area of the mind in shich all the processes
have an exclusively two-person structure consisting of the
individual and the individual's primary object. Its dynamic force,
originating from the basic fault has the overwhelming aim of
'putting things right'. This area is contrasted with two others:
the area of the Oedipus complex, which has essentially a triangular
structure comprising the individual and two of his objects, and
whose characteristic dynamism has the form of a conflict; and the
area of creation, in which there are no objects in the proper
sense, and whose characteristic force is the urge to create, to
produce
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