Beyond Eight-Month Anxiety

Journal title PSICOANALISI
Author/s Anne-Marie Sandler
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2018/2
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 43-63 File size 209 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSI2018-002004
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The ideas in this paper take as their point of departure the concept of eight-month anxiety (or stranger anxiety) observed and written about by René Spitz, with whose name the concept of eight-month anxiety is indissolubly linked (1950), (1965a). Following a discussion of some aspects of this phenomenon, the Author presents a clinical material from an adult psychoanalytic case in order to demonstrate a striking correspondence between an adult mode of functioning and the "stranger anxiety" of the infant.

Keywords: Eight-month anxiety, separation, self, object, refuelling

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Anne-Marie Sandler, Al di là dell’"angoscia dell’ottavo mese" in "PSICOANALISI" 2/2018, pp 43-63, DOI: 10.3280/PSI2018-002004