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Въведение в изучаването на архаичното пространство
The Concept of Archaic Space

Author(s): Nikolay G. Kolev
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: psychopathological symptoms; archaic experience;

Summary/Abstract: There is a basic lateralisation in our archaic experience of space. The pathways of projection in paranoid patients can be followed outwards into external space, with the right side of the body and environment being associated with the primary mother-imago. This holds whether the individual is right-handed or not. The author marshals evidence for this hypothesis from his analytic work with numerous paranoid patients and from the study of the spatial structure of dreams and the system in the localisation of certain psychopathological symptoms. He suggests that the concept of archaic space can help us extend our knowledge of the structure of the pre-oedipal psychopathology: the splitting-projection of the primary mother-imago to the right, the spatial structure of paranoia, the acting out in perversions.

  • Issue Year: III/2002
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 121-135
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian