A study of the vicissitudes of identification in twins.
After reviewing the work of a number of authors on the specific problems of identification of twins, the author examines the difficulties met with in the establishment of good symbiotic relationship with a maternal object when a twin is always interposed between the mother and the child. It is very much up to the mother to ensure that the constant presence of a third individual is not experienced as parasitism by the other twin. The disastrous consequences of such a situation in an adult patient are illustrated by a clinical example.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D012801:Sibling Relations; D014427:Twins / Q000523:psychology*