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Narcissistic Elation
Narcissistic elation or narcissistic coenaesthetic expansion were terms used by Hungarian psychoanalyst Béla Grunberger to highlight 'the narcissistic situation of the primal self in narcissistic union with the mother'. Narcissistic elation has also been used more widely to describe a variety of conditions, including states of being in love, of triumph, and of obtaining self-understanding. Grunberger's definition The term was coined to describe the state of prenatal beatitude, which according to him characterizes the life of the fetus: a state of megalomaniacal happiness amounting to a perfect homeostasis, devoid of needs or desires. The ideal here is bliss experienced in absolute withdrawal from the object and from the outside world. Narcissistic elation is at once the memory of this unique and privileged state of elation; a sense of well-being of completeness and omnipotence linked to that memory, and pride in having experienced this state, pride in its (illusory) oneness. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Grunberger
Béla Grunberger (22 February 1903 – 25 February 2005) was a Franco-Hungarian psychoanalyst May 68 His 1969 work ''L'univers contestationnaire'', written with fellow International Psychoanalytical Association, IPA member Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, under the joint pseudonym 'André Stéphane' postulated that the left-wing rioters of May 68 were totalitarian Stalinists, and proffered the hypothesis that they were "affected by a sordid infantilism caught up in an Oedipal revolt against the father".Jean-Michel Rabaté (2009) 68 + 1: Lacan's année érotique' published in Parrhesia, NUMBER 6 • 2009 pp. 28–45André Stéphane [Bela Grunberger and Janine Chasselet-Smirguel], ''L'Univers Contestationnaire'' (Paris: Payot, 1969). Notably, Jacques Lacan, Lacan mentioned this book with great disdain. While Grunberger and Chasseguet-Smirgel were still cloaked by the pseudonym, Lacan remarked that for sure none of the authors belonged to his school, as none would stoop to such a low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |