the idea of the connection of anxiety with the act of birth belongs to Sigmund Freud. In 1900, in the notes to the "Interpretation of dreams” he noted that the anxiety associated with the act of birth, before reflecting on the fantasies of intrauterine existence.
Rank wrote a book “birth Injury", dedicating it to Freud. In this book fear Chapter is devoted to the “Infantile fear”: “… in fact, the affect of fear from the act of birth in a latent form remains and continues to operate any coincidence that as or more often "symbolically" - it "reminds" is used to re-respond again to this hidden passion,” [26, p. 47].
In this case, Rank is talking about a random night fear. Fear, according to Rank, appears as response to the initial fear, experienced at birth. Reasoning in the logic of “from sensations to affect”, Otto Rank repeats and the theory of trauma, and the theory of the origin of anxiety in the result transformed physiological arousal. Otto Rank believed that
He refers to a similar term birth injuries, used by Freud, but a few lines later clarifies that this term refers to the symptom of lack of air, suffocation. Freud in the early theories were really talking about symptoms to breathing and heartbeat, which first manifested in the act of birth.
But the next Rank writes about three events in which anxiety is inevitable: birth, taking away from the breast, the imagination on the genital trauma of castration: “the Threat falls on the ground not only vaguely remember the initial trauma, or representing her uncertain fear, but on the basis of the second, consciously experienced and subjected to the displacement of the trauma of weaning, which, however, its intensity is not equal to the first injury, as a significant part of his “traumatic” action it is bound to the previous one.
Only later in the individual's history in third place.
which is precisely because of its unreality is particularly susceptible to take over the largest part of the birth chart affect the fear in the form of feelings of guilt that are actually quite in the biblical sense of the fall, is tied for the division of the sexes, the difference of the sexual organs and functions. The deepest unconscious, which is always deeply indifferently to the floor (bisexual), knows nothing about it and are only familiar with the primary human fear of birth” [26, p. 49-50].
In the text about braking Freud writes, without abandoning some of the ideas of the economic theory that the main role in the question of anxiety is not the passion, and the idea (fantasy) about the affect of: “...if anxiety, as a symbol of separation, was repeated at each subsequent branch, but, unfortunately, the use of this compliance prevents that birth is not experienced subjectively as a separation from the mother, since the fetus is entirely narcissistic mother as an object of completely unknown" [40, p. 271]. Freud says that we tend to believe that in a state of anxiety is the reproduction of the trauma of birth.
the Trauma of birth - not just a metaphor. In a single concept contains two dictionary values.
Freud's trauma of birth -
“the First event that causes the person anxiety is birth; objectively, it means separation from the mother and can be likened castration of the mother (in accordance with the equation child = penis)" [40, p. 271].
the Wound
as the loss of the environment (environment is separated from baby), a series of losses, following through the entire life of a person and the simultaneous denial of it. And, then, logically, is the way the concept of emotional pain, melancholy takes the place of fear.
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