What is it about?
This paper is a response to Fain's rather obscure article on 'Passivity and Mentalization''. The important part of that paper tries to understand what happens on an intrapsychic level between mother and child when the child is in need of quieting leading to sleep or more broadly, consolation.
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Why is it important?
Condolation is one of the least studied ideas in psychoanalysis.
Perspectives
This was an attempt to retrieve something palable and important from a very obscure French text.
Dr Richard Brian Simpson
International Psychoanalytic Association
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This page is a summary of: On being consoled: Engaging with Michel Fain’s paper ‘Mentalization and passivity’, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, March 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2017.1401433.
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