title: "Paul Klee and the hypothesis of morphic resonance". Adjustment to illness and life history of patients with progressive systemic scleroderma.
abstract: Within the context of a Psychoanalytic Psychosomatic Medicine the biography of Paul Klee is analysed, who suffered during his last years from progressive systemic scleroderma. Amongst the pervading and characteristic motives of his life and his work, the motives of the dragon-like demon and that of the Dead are introduced. Both are shown to relate to his illness as well as to a highly significant narcissistic idealized picture of his grandmother on the mother's side. Finally, a general biological hypothesis--Sheldrake's hypothesis of morphogenetic fields and morphic resonance--is laid out for the domain of Psychosomatic Medicine. According to this hypothesis, primary process characteristics such as condensation and displacement are also seen to be valid in the somatic domain without being restricted only to conversion events.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Rehabilitationspsychologie am Psychologischen Institut, Universität Freiburg.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Morscher
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005197:Famous Persons; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D012803:Sick Role; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: "Paul Klee und die Hypothese der morphischen Resonanz". Zu Krankheitsverarbeitung und Lebensgeschichte bei Patienten mit progressiver systemischer Sklerodermie.