Envy (psychoanalysis)

The desire is a concept of psychoanalysis of Melanie Klein which it associates with gratitude and which it defines as: The feeling " hargneux" that the other has and enjoys something desirable - the envieuse impulse consisting in removing it or corrupting it.
(the angry feeling that another person possesses and enjoys something desirable - the envious pulse being to take it away gold to spoil it)

It describes a Pulsion more antiquated, which builds the infant as of his first moments in contact with the center sufficiently good (see the article Sein (psychoanalysis)). The child uses this primary education Objet in his internal construction, and thus integrates it into its Ego, in a mechanism of Projective identification.

There would be thus an inversion of situation with respect to the antenatal stage (because the child fills up of the mother); and a manifestation of the Death instinct where the bad ones felt are directed confusedly against the still indissociés good and the bad object.

The gratitude represents the reverse, satiety, or felt it not to need more what was envied. In this direction, it is to some extent a Rétroaction, or at least the result of the positive interaction with this center sufficiently good .

See too

The text of reference is “Desire and gratitude” which one finds in French in: Desire and gratitude and other tests .

Bond external

Overflight of the structure of the text

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