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Qualities of the superego object projected onto the therapist according to the erogenous zone from which stimulus derives. Depriving breast (receptive oral modality. O1) Devouring breast. (Cannibal oral modality. O2)
Emotion or feeling corresponding to the depressive position.
Emotion or feeling corresponding to the paranoid- schizoid position
Sadness. Nostalgia. Affliction
Greed. Envy
Resignation
Impatience
‘Dispossessing’
(expelling)
Humiliation
Shame
breast
(Expulsive
anal
modality. A1)
Stifling breast (Retentive anal modality. A2) Poisoning breast (Phallico- urethral modality. FU)
Despair
Worthlessness. Contempt.
Pessimism
Mistrust
Mutilating breast (Genital modality. G)
Depersonalisation
Estrangement. Derealisation.
III. CONTEMPORARY EXTENSIONS AND CLINICAL USES OF THE CONCEPT
David Liberman’s Theory of Communication as a whole presents a contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis, which can be synthetized in two ways, along which the concept further developed: Firstly, the theory presents a modern empirically based system of evaluation and investigation; a system widely developed and detailed in his publications, especially in Liberman (1970), and then expanded and perfected in the vast and laborious oeuvre of David Maldavsky (2004, 2007 and 2013) on what this author has named the DLA (David Liberman Algorithm). Secondly, the other innovative direction that Liberman’s work has taken, lies its direct relevance to contemporary practice, evaluation as well as clinical implications for psychoanalytic work, as it provides innovative tools to address actual psychopathology in all
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