title: [Affective ambivalence of the psychosomatic patient].
abstract: Ambivalence is conceived as a condition of an internal contradiction between an emotional verification of self-feeling, and the imaginative action-ability in respect to an existential life performance, if by the a priori of temporality no adequate actionability in terms of imaginations, and no adequate assertion of an unreflected self-feeling as an emotional quality of self-awareness is simultaneously available. Four cases will illustrate that in psychosomatic patients a as if actionability, e.g. as a mere over-adaptation following life-events of significant others, is predominantly given replacing a self-conform action-ability, and that the assertion of self-feeling is preponderantly fixed to the somatic phenomena. Thus the historical life-performance remains arrested by the predominance of unachieved affective moments in the condition of an affective ambivalence, though psychosomatic patients are well aware enough of the existential necessity to arrange temporality as an existential quality of the futural aspects of their life-performance.
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authors.lastname: Stüttgen
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012803:Sick Role
vernacular_title: Zur affektiven Ambivalenz des psychosomatischen Patienten.