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词条 Golden fantasy
释义

  1. Structure

  2. Cultural examples

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. Further reading

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Golden fantasy is a secret (or not-so-secret) expectation that all of one's problems can be solved by interaction with a perfect and all-caring relationship figure. The fantasy can be found both in psychotherapy and in ordinary life.

Structure

The golden fantasy was first named as such by Sidney Smith in 1977.[1] Arguably however, the concept had been anticipated by Karen Horney,[2] and by Charles Brenner;[3] and it was rooted in earlier psychoanalytic understanding of passive-receptive mastery.[4]

Such a fantasy may resonate to unfortunate effect with the therapist's own “rescuer” fantasies; and has to be gradually given up, and mourned, if progress in therapy is to be made.[5] In the form of compulsive acting out of the fantasy in real life, it can constitute a formidable obstacle to analysis of the transference.[6]

Later writers have placed more emphasis on the adaptive nature of the fantasy in ego-maintenance – its role in fending off a primitive sense of angst[7] – and on the necessity of its sensitive handling, to strengthen the therapeutic alliance.[8]

Residential care workers see the fantasy emerging in split form, with carers first seen as fulfilling it in entirety, in opposition to the bad parents; and then the parents being seen as the answer to the golden fantasy, with the care home becoming all bad.[9]

Cultural examples

  • Sylvia Plath has been seen as seeking an idealised fantasy partner, able to give her a missing sense of fullness, completeness and perfection.[10]

See also

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  • Fantasy bond
  • Fantasy prone personality
  • Idealization and devaluation
  • Jacob Arlow
  • Karl Abraham
  • Separation-individuation

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References

1. ^Glen O. Gabbard, Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (2010) p. 143
2. ^I. Solomon, Karen Horney and Character Disorder (2005) p. 98
3. ^L. M. Vaillant, Changing Character (1997) p. 136
4. ^Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 561
5. ^Glen O. Gabbard, Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (2010) p. 160 and p. 171-2
6. ^I. Solomon, Karen Horney and Character Disorder (2005) p. 98
7. ^S. Teitelbaum, Illusion and Disillusion (2007) p. 113
8. ^Adaptive nature
9. ^D. P. Zimmerman, Psychotherapy in Group Care (2013) p. 67
10. ^E. Bronfen, Sylvia Plath (1998) p. 38

Further reading

Sidney Smith (1977), "The golden fantasy: a regressive reaction to separation anxiety", International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 58, 311–324

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