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organization that lead to a remodeling of the ego and the super-ego follow uneven, tortuous and contradictory roads, inducing episodes of anxiety, tension, confusion and disorganization, to which concomitants and consequent changes in the experiences of the image of Self and therefore of personal identity correspond. In the mature and normal adult a permanent and continuous oscillation and reciprocal modification between ego and self allows the subject to live as an object in relationships: within himself, in intra-psychic reality and with external reality. The experience of self-image does not reflect the actual situation of the ego. Hence identity disturbances, errors of assessment of one’s own abilities, difficulty in projecting oneself correctly into the future and formulating programs and defining realistic perspectives. Senise also distinguishes the self from the self-image and affirms that a greater or lesser coincidence between self and self-image is the index of the good or bad functioning of the described processes. In the analysis with the adolescent it is important to pursue an understanding of the image of him/herself to allow the adolescent to remain sufficiently attentive to the state of the Self in order, possibly, to act on the ego for a more and more correct and adequate use of this awareness.
VII. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT IN LATIN AMERICA
Latin American psychoanalysis overall developed from the intertwining of strong Freudian and Object Relations tradition and their various elaborations in the work of post- Freudian and post-Kleinian theorists in North America and Europe, prominently including French psychoanalytic authors, with the original ideas of the authors of the Latin American region. Many original and synthetic conceptualizations (below) emerged out of such panoramic variety of “Schools of Psychoanalysis” (Belchior Melícias 2015; also separate entries INTERSUBJECTIVITY, OBJECT RELATIONS THEORIES, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE). Notable is the bipolarity between the French and Anglo- Saxon influences in the development of psychoanalysis in Latin America in general (Roudinesco 2000), which subsequently influenced the reception and evolution of self concept in the region. Despite the difficulties derived from terminological differences and theoretical opposition (Lacan, 1969; Hamburg, 1991; Roudinesco, 2000; Vegh 2010), it is possible to observe a significant development and application of the Self concept in Latin America. VII. A. First References of the Use and Application The first Latin American references regarding the Self can be found in the 60’s and 70’s. Simultaneously with the developments regarding the Ego and the Self in North America and Europe, psychoanalysts from the Latin American region were not only aware of those developments, but had already started their own research and studies on those concepts.
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