title: [Total fusion with an object and its destruction].
abstract: On the basis of four partly narcissistic-neurotic, partly narcissistically disturbed borderline-patients who are very severely disturbed in their self- and in their object-representation the author explains how total fusion-tendencies may become fatal for the object, if this wants to separate itself even just a bit. The object turns then abruptly from a "good" into a "bad" one. In a fifth example it is described how, in deep and especially in the endogenous depression, the fusion-tendency with a near object may lead to an expanded suicide. The danger, which should not be underestimated, for near related persons of these heavily narcissistically disturbed, respectively - in the depression - emptied human beings is underlined. Forensic viewpoints which follow the destruction of the object because of a total fusion-tendency are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009289:Narcissism; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D009769:Object Attachment; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Totale Fusion mit einem Objekt and dessen Zerstörung.