title: Envy, identification, and pride.
abstract: The constituents of the complex affective experience of envy are delineated, and defenses against each of these constituents are explored. Attention is then called to a common, variably adaptive, and socially approved means of obviating or coping with envious feelings, involving a partial identification and culminating in the conscious experience of "being proud of." A conjecture is made regarding the kind of pathology most likely to interfere with this mechanism.
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Rosenblatt
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007578:Jealousy; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011936:Reality Testing