title: The function of the object in the binding and unbinding of the drives.
abstract: The author discusses the clinical consequences of the failure to structure ambivalence in terms of a conflict, and explains the paradoxical patterns that are then set up, particularly in the various kinds of negative therapeutic reaction. He then explores four instances of primary traumatism that contribute to the failure of the initial binding of the drives and to the individual's subsequent inability to set up a conflict of ambivalence that could curb the clinical manifestations of destructiveness.
authors.affiliation: University of Lyon 2, Faculty of Psychology, 4 Rue Barrème, 69006 Lyon, France. rene.roussillon@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: René
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roussillon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004328:Drive; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*