Guntrip started by arguing that a person has a relationship-oriented structure, not a pleasure-oriented one. Pleasure is a signpost for the object. (Fairbairn) Life finds meaning only with object relations, without relation I cannot develop. He says that psychoneuroses actually serve as a defense to ward off schizoid. When good object seeking encounters inhibition, fear or anxiety, it causes psychopathologies. The bad object is internalized more radically than the good object. Illnesses are defenses to deal with bad objects. Schizoid withdrawal occurs in the first year of life.
Depression: Fear of destruction: Guilt (annihilation with hatred) Schizoid: Absorbing, introverted destructiveness (Fear of destruction with love)
The desire to swallow causes fear, and fear causes withdrawal. That is why the libido is directed inward, not towards objects. While the depressive is afraid of losing the person, the schizoid is also afraid of losing himself. While the schizoid stimulant is the object of need, the depressive is perceived as the object of rejection and needs to be destroyed. Depressed baby bites, schizoid baby wants to swallow. Identification; ingestion (regression into the womb); swallowing (oral phase) Schizoids rely on identification, not emotion. Separation for schizoids; it is a destructive ”’break” full of angry violence. The objects of love are in themselves, they are identified with them. Autoerotic activities are based on identification. The relationship with the person (eg, mother) continues entirely within itself. They can’t get the freedom thing out of their mind. They experience conflict because of the need for the person and the fear of swallowing the person. Disconnected can be masked by non-stop talking, hectic activity. In your dreams; It can be seen as participating in the activity of others as an observer. Overemphasis on duty and thought is common as a fear of escaping from nonexistence.
Schizoid: Regressed Paranoid: Persecuted Depressed: Guilt-loaded
depressive suicide; angry destructive schizoid suicide; appears as a dullness of emotion. In schizoid rigidity, he is in the premoral state. healthy regression; relax, listen, sleep. Fantasies of the schizoid person; It can help keep the feeling of having me alive. A person can endure loneliness only if he is not alone in his inner life. The person’s obsessions can be seen to protect me.
For therapists: Therapeutic regression should aim to reach the starting point of primary identification. A relationship should be established in which the client can gain “self-birth and growth”, which he cannot achieve with his parents.
