The symbolic perspective of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum Freud . “Project” revisited by Jung’s archetype
Keywords:
OCD, archetype and nervous system, symbol, matriarchal archetype, patriarchal archetype, cognitive behavioral therapy, symbolic elaboration, expressive techniques, projection, introjectionAbstract
The author approaches the obsessive-compulsive spectrum through the symbolic archetypal dimension rooted in three perspectives: neurological, psycho-pharmacological and psychodynamic. He associates matriarchal, patriarchal, alterity and totality archetypes with structures and functions of the nervous system. The author considers the hypothesis developed by Katz (1991) according to which OCD presents a disturbance of repression due to a neurotransmitter disfunction, mainly of serotonin. From an archetypal perspective, this neuro-chemical disfunction develops a deficiency of the delimiting, organizing and contention functions of the Patriarchal Archetype. The intensification of repression, projection and ritualization in OCD is a neurological and psychological reaction to deal with this deficiency. The author mentions his experience according to which exclusively verbal psychodynamic psychotherapy is largely inefficient in OCD, phobias and panic syndrome. He argues that the relative efficiency of Cognitive Behavior Therapy can be improved if exposure and avoidance techniques are employed as expressive techniques considering the transference relationship and the defenses present within an overall symbolic and archetypal theory of personality development.
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