Aging psychodynamics

Theory. Introduction: Aging is a dynamic process that concerns the individual at all stages of life.

It has no necessary relationship to the concept of disorder or disease.

Associates a multitude of theoretical and experiences in psychoanalysis relate differently, changing, and sometimes contradictory.

Aging can be linked to time and integrated speed so unstable that they are experienced differently by everyone.

-Freud, (1905a) postulated that people who come to the fifties, or beyond often lack the plasticity of mental processes, and partly also because the material that should be reworked, indefinitely prolonging treatment. This concept could be called the accumulation of material that gives little plasticity, as if sclera, or libidinal viscosity, allows one of the many lectures about aging.

-Aging is a libidinal vicissitudes in their production, increase and decrease, distribution and displacement, Freud (1895b, 1905d, 1921c).

With age does not decrease libido but on the contrary increases (1895b), p. 102. In this article, Freud says, saying that "[...] in the male at the time of its declining power and increased libido [...]"; and in "Leonardo ..." which says that "[...] after turning fifty [...] it is not uncommon in man's libido is still a strong push venture [...]", Freud (1910c), p. 124, (my italics).

'It's an inevitability of temporal development, Freud (1905d).

-Is linked with the progressive withdrawal of libido from the objects of love, Freud (1914c).

-In the "Conferences ... (1916-17), says that over the years -" chronic influence "- a shortcoming intensifies what we now call the immune system. Defects in it to destroy toxic fragments generated by the body itself.

'It's libidinal attachment to lost objects, lawful inference from what is said in "The transience" (1916a), p. 311, "[...] we are still young and capable of life when lost items are replaced by new ones, [...]."

'It's a drain on the source drive. Freud (1923b) compared the self in relation to the id and the rider rije and curbing the power of his horse than his, and that, like the rider is forced ever be led to where your horse wants.

-Max Schur (1972), p. 568, note the letter sent Freud to Lou Andreas Salome in May 1925, referring to the sensa-tion than that recorded in old age. He wrote to his friend "[...] around me is forming a crust of indifference slowly [...] It is a natural development, a way to begin to be inorganic. I think they call "indifference of old age" [...] need a kind of resonance [...]".

-Is the replacement of the repression of trial representations, Freud (1925h).

'It's the release and transport of the past to a present waiting for the future, Freud (1937c).

-An accumulation of losses "[...] age and exhaustion of receptivity, a kind of psychic entropy-[...]", Freud (1937c), p.244.

-It is a destination of attachment, Bowlby, J. (1969).

-A stage of development (post-genital ¿?) Gagey, J. (1992).

-An enrichment of personality maturation (such as cheese and wine), H. Péquignot, (1981).

-A developing enrichment duels - Cesium, Alvarez de Toledo, Mom, Schlossberg, Storni, Morera, Evelson-

(1963).

-Old is not available before, only his memory, to have young people who have projects which do not have and whose completion will be a mystery to us.

The concept, as a bird flutters by psicoanálsis frond from one figure to another. Stops in all issues, the matter is dispersed and are transformed, sustained by the idea of ​​time.

Aging from the perspective temporal.-Path before and after, the present and the memory, the memory and forgetting, spaces inside-out, the certainty and doubt.

* Preliminary considerations about the weather from a psychoanalytic perspective. Some quotes Freudian.

The theme of temporality had multiple allusions in Freud.-The relationship between edge and ontogeny-the theory of pulse oximetry-nal-mounting the drive regression and ego-linking repeat-ing and memory-the temporary construction inferred ,-phases of libidinal development, successive stratification of memory traces (Letter of December 6, 1896 to Fliess, where he speaks of the mnemic traces stratification, which undergo a rearrangement as a form of transcription) - the joint in the fantasy of past, present and future, "[...] the temporary [...] is certainly essential to the distinction between activity in the preconscious and incon-patient (1895c, 1897, manuscript M)-The articulation of memory traces for concurrency (passivity and activity), analogy and causality, (1900a). The criterion of simultaneity implies not so-so memory traces a link, but a way to handle the urgent need instinctual discharge, (1901b), (1914c)-The four-ity of the transient, which has its value in the depletion forever the beauty of the human face over time, (1916a) 'In "The Ego and the Id "(1923b) assumed that Eros, by opposi-tion to the death drive aims to complicate life-In" Note on the magic slate "(1925a), assumes that the functioning of perception is discontinuous based on the idea of ​​time, (1933a, conf.

31). The discontinuity is fundamental psychic production time, and becomes the regular investiture drive movement and subsequent decathexis.

With the endowment becomes conscious, Freud (1895) and concienciadesaparece, cuandolainvestiduraseinterrumpe. Dynamically, then, flow, ebb and libidinal, which generates the discontinuity, requires two different places as required. In turn, this movement is a result of stress devenidadela relacionesintercelulares.

In order to preserve the structural complexity of toxic cell death in their own excrement, (1920g) and the complexity involved, which leads to tension, resulting in flow, resulting in cycle, marking the time. Is commanded by Eros versus Thanatos sends the monotony.

In consciousness there is a double record, the drive and affection, and the record mundane as sensory impression. In the constitution intrapsychic tion time, it is important not only capture but the speed differences. The speed and generates differences passage of the logic of simultaneity, the analogy ruled by word, and so each erogenei-ness has its specificity. The rate includes the concept of duration that is caused by the complexity of different speeds (affective and sensory), and speed sesignificadesdela sensory affection.

From the time perspective, aging can be understood as the progressive establishment dido blurring between a system of representations and another system to come. The site of integration of knowledge and the creation of history, the moment of synthesis of the past with a project that grows out of it, through the work of thought based on the story.

The records I get older and try to bring the idea of ​​probability with a sense of possibility, gene-ra serendipitous surprise with the last event. At every moment this past reorganisations are suffering terminate the ideas of truth. The reorganization thus appears as a revelation, a new data says, or not, a more complete meaning. Awareness of post requires a reworking leads to an update. Thus seen, the aging-to is, paradoxically a rolling upgrade and uncertain.

Myths, religions, scriptures, child footprints, usually charged with getting older now and I drive the relationship with their ancestors and descendants.

Links with the world they are processed according to the oceanic feeling, Freud (1930a). With a feeling of "being-one-with-the-whole", similar to an early phase of ego feeling, the restoration of limitless narcissism.

The mental apparatus has potential experience, Breuer and Freud (1895), the aging, creativity and loads by modulating (1933a, conf.31) is able to reveal. The representation coexists with a purpose, and involves the ne-CESID to combine uncertainties, they are responsible for the potential. Representation, anticipation and trial equivalena repression of representations, (1925h).

The index of perception of reality that distinguishes representation, is conquered by the maturation of the device.

The effect of aging warrants the attention and power of anticipation. Both turn enejecimientoque maintain continuity, rather than conform to the current category /

memory, spatial differentiation being constituted outside / a-in, substantial reference of psychic life.

The psychic apparatus is deployed and live in space through the temporal rate generated by the meetings. The passage of time is marked by small absences, separation, loss and mourning that give life to the interior. This is a concept structural and dynamic, in which the lived time, sense, gives reality to feel.

The err learning and accepting the passage of time and ligand backbone transit and absence, is part of the adventure of aging.

The move from uncertainty to the truth and its inverse, are formed on the axes of the pleasure-pain relationship, uncertainty-truth, supported by the time it is giving materialization. Remember the "Letter to Romain Rolland ... Freud (1936th), "[...] A behaved as if [...] was forced to believe in something that really seemed uncertain [...] and now no longer astonish you that reminds you of the experience on the Acropolis old haunts me since I myself [...]", p. 214, 221, (my italics). By way of reminder, the text speaks Freud's relationship with doubt. This is due to the uncertainty that enabled it to their cultural reality. Then, when he travels to Greece's experience allows you to verify what the culture teaches and thus reduce the possibility.

What was the project, thought, is certified by the aging allows verification through experience. Then, old, can no longer certify travel and what the culture teaches.

In "Note on 'magic slate'" (1925a), Freud gives the impression of a very precise correlate with its object image but said "[...] the magic board can not "play" from within the [...]", written p.246.

According to this model, memory difficulties would be the result of material failure (which may be). But does not include mnemic disorders common in aging, due to the distribution of care.

Attention is when there is no correlation between the loads of desire and instinctual perceptions, Freud (1950a [1887-1902]).

Aging memory is altered paraexitación the concept could account. The unit distributed piecemeal attention sequentially, with the aim-ing to avoid overload, in a distribution whose origin remains unknown.

The envejecimieno from the perspective of their relationship with the instinctual sources.

Another way to work on the metapsychology of aging, is related to the changes in it, which is the substrate itself to what happens in the psyche.

The subject is governed by the fate of his libido, and aging affects the ability to enjoy her psychic translation. The change is bound to drive changes in the sources, Freud (1915c), along with chemical changes, which together with the Procedures and organic link with the environment, are leaving marks.

Heinz Kohut (1969, T. XXVI, N2, p.398.) Tells us that: "[...] the ultimate control of the rider on his horse, may have been helped also crucial that the horse has aged [...], with regard to the supreme powers of nature, we are all 'sunday riders' [...]". It refers to what was said by Freud (1923b), where he compares the self in relation to the id and the rider rije and curbing the power of his horse than his, and, like the rider, ever forced to be led to where your horse wants.

There are two types of changes instinctual sources:

I. Causes phylogenetically prepared.

I.a.Causas of the species.

Freud (1905d) argues (referring to temporary factors) that "[...] the genesis of this property would have to look human in history, the primary of the species [...]", and adds that "[ ...] The sequence in which the various motions are activated instinctual seems phylogenetically established [...] [...] We can not even indicate the origin of these temporary complications development processes [...]", p . 241.

The genital drive no longer has hegemony. Usually a fall does not affect the ability to create, it is maintained and can still be called. Others may gain importance (eg, ambition).

I.b. Hereditary factors.

These factors have influenced the family inheritance (not the species). As for the cultural heritage, or "reason of mankind", Freud (1918b), the question remains if this is not par-ticipates the effectiveness of instinct, is a congenital predetermination.

II. Causes related to the context.

II.a. General aspects. For these reasons I will quote a defense poorly developed by Freud. I refer to the immune defense. He alludes to it in the "Conferences .... (1916-17, conf.24), and says that "[...] for their property to influence all organ systems and all functions, actual neurosis witness an unmistakable resemblance to pathogenic states generated by the chronic influence of toxic substances by the strange and sudden withdrawal of these [...]", p. 353, (my italics). With the passing of the years ("influence and abrupt withdrawal "), intensifies a shortcoming of what we now call the immune system. Defects in it to destroy toxic fragments generated by the body itself. Referring to Freud Basedow disease states that in this, the activity is due to toxic materials but not the toxins that are introduced into the body as foreign agents, but are generated by its own metabolism. Freud argues that Basedow's disease, unlike the actual neuroses, there is excess non-sexual chemical toxins. Possibly they , would be linked to immune disorders and self-preservation. "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (1920g), argues that we must accept that everything living dies for internal fundamentals.

Own metabolism products have this effect leading to death and the body succumbs to natural death. This is caused by insufficient removal of the products of its own metabolism.

In the article "On Psychotherapy" (1905a [1904]), says that people who come to the fifties, or beyond often lack the plasticity of mental processes. They are not able to "be polite" and partly also because the material that should be reworked, indefinitely prolonging treatment. This concept is known as perelabo-operation, which involves a change of meaning, not just movement of loads. But this concept might be called the accumulation of material that gives little plasticity, as if sclera, or libidinal viscosity, can understand that it is aging. Aging is associated with the accumulation of material in the line tough process erogenous marks, scars caused particularamnete narcissistic wound. The viscosity of the libido (1905d, p.221-2, 1915f, p.259, 1916-17, P.310, 1918b, p.105;, 1937c, p.243, 1926d. P.149-50, 1930th , p.105., 1940a, p.182;) character designates a sticky, pasty adhesive (Haftbarkeit), with binding capacity (zu Fahhigkeit fixierung), inert (Tragkeit).

Freud (1920g), argues that the loss of love and failure leave a residual narcissistic scar, which is the most powerful contribution to the often "feeling of inferiority."

The self-preservation instincts, impose the way to go in obedience to a particular way, a tendency to return to the inorganic. The way of this return is the path of the toxic, the imperfect elimination of harmful substances is enhanced over time.

However, these discussions on the mechanisms of aging, are the concepts currently available but would not even "explaining" some on aging.

II.b. The problem of stasis of self-preservation.

The stasis of self-preservation instinct is the result of processing faltade motrizypsíquicodelamisma.

Motor processing takes place with the specific action and prosecution to the trial of psychological attribution, the existence or the trial internal external difference.

Freud (1926d) establishes a relationship between organic pain and stasis. As a result of bodily pain is generated rather narcissistic investment elevated body aching. That investidu-ra increases more and exerts an effect on the self-emptying. The next step, and end, would be the investment of self-preservation. Freud (1940a) argues that there are people in whom self-preservation instinct has experienced a disorder (the most accurate translation could be investment), and seem not to pursue anything other than damaged and destroyed themselves. The pain, is understood by Freud in quantitative terms, large magnitudes of excitement burst into the psychic apparatus. When the quantity exceeds the possibility of binding is abolished consciousness. For the emergence of experience of pain, tension irrumpiente should be bearable. Certainly scream expulsive implies a trend, but the pain comes first, and the narcissistic libido is released in an effort to make a contrainvestidura, which occurs automatically and leads to a global drive impoverishment. Freud replaces the concept of "internal shock" by "internal bleeding" which refers to a state of passivity and helplessness of primitive real me. The reserve power is lost, the self energy in order to perform specific actions.

Disturbances in self-preservation instincts stem from an attempt of defense against a narcissistic injury.

Thanks to the hemorrhaging of self-preservation, disinfection capacity and trophic toxicant is being eroded by pain.

Freud (1926d), says that in childhood are characteristic motor and psychic helplessness. Given the traumatic situation, against which one is helpless, conciden external danger and internal. Here is linked with traumatic helplessness, is that I experience pain in a case which never ceases, or another one stasis of need that can not be satisfied. The economic situation in both the same. The motor is expressed helplessness in psychic helplessness.

In short life provides trauma resulting in pain, leading to stasis of self-preservation. With this, and undermine the possibility detoxifying, constitutes another factor of aging. Aging understood as waste Crescentia increasingly difficult to process, altering the ecology intracorporeal.

Secondarily altered libido in processing and psychic helplessness arises. No new projects invested, alternatives for the identification, in love and enjoyment at work.

A few words about the psychic pain, which in this period has a peculiarity. It is expressed as reduced sense of self.

The psychic pain previously requires an endowment of nostalgia for an object that does not match the perceptual record. This absence is constituted as a wound to the narcissistic libido. There is an increase of libidinal tension, which invests the place of registration of the absence, and by His wounds you lose tension. It creates a kind of meditation, Freud (1887, manuscript G) due to internal bleeding. This loss may predispose to psychosomatic illness, 'so common in aging, loss of self-preservation with ego depletion and thereby loses the ability to detox-ing, as another factor contributing to aging.

The aging topical perspective.

Sophocles was asked whether age allowed him to still enjoy the pleasures of love, and Sophocles said, "[...] you must know that every day I find new charms in the conversation as the pleasures of the body decrease and leave me [...]". (Dialogues between Cephalus and Socrates. Plato, Republic l). Libido displays a movement marked by the creation of aggregates of increasing complexity disrupts Thanatos. The uniqueness of a phase of development is not only the inauguration of an area, but also the deployment of a mental organization. The structuring of the psyche is, classically, culminated in the genitalia. Drive culminated with the burden of genital function and the choice of objects is not narcissistic. Want the classical theory that beyond this there is no other organization drive that offers progressive appoggiatura in one hop. The psychic life is constructed with a gradual opening up to others. This provides an underpinning genitality privileged.

However, the otherness and discovered, it continues beyond genitality with the exchange of words that are tying different relationships. Just as the mental structure is underpinned by relationship to the body and its functions, and cathected mental representations created in the course of the awareness, with appoggiatura and ability to produce specific effects, is at least conceivable. Supports the possibility of a phase beyond the genital, does postgenital?, Which becomes with aging Assoun Paul-Laurent, (1983), p. 172.

However, occasionally, coincidentally, exclusive or alternative, occurs over time fragmentation of global erogeneity of the body.

Some areas are more erogenous than others to acquire a partial primacy over the rest, such as oral prevalence may override other possible libidinal satisfaction.

In the letter of December 16, 1917 to Fliess, Freud was 61 years and nine months, he says, "[...] in fact there is nothing strange that a man of my age gradually notice the inevitable decline of my working person [...] [...] splendidly all day and I can hardly control my appetite, but no joy as it used [...]", sleep (my italics). (Schur. op.cit. P. 469).

The progressive fall of the genital instinct, bringing together the partial drives, determines that they regain their autonomy underpinned by self-preservation instinct and part of narcissism. We witness a real disunity of the drives and for that reason is that somatic arousal-sexual not be liable to hypertrophy, Freud (1895b, 1910c).

The psyche after a certain threshold will be overwhelmed and in a state of relative insufficiency. In women near menopause, Freud (1937c) on the drives "[...] [...] Domenico fails and becomes instinctual reinforcements under reciprocal influences of the drives side. The result is that "[...] the power is indisputable evidence of the quantitative factor [...]", p. 229.

In "Outline ..., Freud (1940a) argues that "[...] this process is not always seamlessly consume [...] have pre-existed libido fixations states earlier stages, which independiete aspiration of the normal sexual aim, it is designated perversion [...]", p. 153. We are in the chapter on senile perversions.

The task of libido is the drive safe return destructive and diverting it plays out, "[...]. then receives the name of instinct of destruction, seizure instinct, will to power [...]", Freud, (1924c), p. 169. No other driving technique ties the individual life to both the reality and the insistence on work, Freud (1911c, 1930a). When the social context is preventing the processing of violence through the labor market, and this does not become a genuine way of handling drive, inability to link the drive becomes in degradation and return to intrasomático sadomasochism. This is a capital factor in aging. "[...] If I consent to any inaccuracy, we can say that the death instinct acting within the organism primarily sadism masochism is identical [...]", Freud (1924c), p. 170. When intracorporeal sadomasochism is different pathways arise originating in the least ill possible ligation of the death instinct.

The greater or lesser processing capacity of the drive is linked with the various elements involved in the aging staff (phylogeny, family, inheritance and individual factors). Within the last concerned with how to handle trauma, Freud (1892), "[...] [...] psychic traumas play a large role in the development of the condition p [...]", . 174.

Thanatos, as a force that adds to differentiating Eros will.

Aggression, destructiveness different because it includes the idea of ​​closeness and communication leads to destructiveness, which is antisocial and does not provide power.

The emerging defusion to be finally done installing full of life and death drives separate. The AERP-nuncio finally with a kind of "libidinal agony", M. Dacher and M. Weinstein (1979).

Certainly the current observation emphasizes the psychic economy of libidinal objects retraction, with loss of interest in the world and mobilization on the ego and body.

But one might ask whether such exhaustion is not only apparent. That is, not that it is a static quantity that is given us, but a renewable product in exchange networks (attachments) that life presents.

The possibility of exchanges have a-dependent vulnerability of complementary sets of each and easements of self. It is tempting and the weakening explanatory psychological support follows the path of the somatic. System loses the ability to reduce its trade open, closed and destroyed in an internal resource consumption, from this moment necessarily exhaustible Freud (1916-17, 1920g). But if we think we are essentially desiring and longing, Freud (1910c), the reduction of trade is not economic but meaningless. Then the decay of trade in aging is not a necessity in every case the underlying structure to govern the form of exchange scheme with the objects.

The only requirement is that of death.

In short. Aging is a process that unfolds in the passing of time.

Modifies the intrinsic conditions and functionality of all that exists. In the living ends with death and has generic methods are: universality, progression, causality intrinsic deterioration.

Is the path, a path in a space of mutation of the identifications in legend merging, illusion, magic and the logic of forgetting and remembering landmarks.

Path that eventually leads to doubt, anguish and unexpected to the accuracy and prudence. Way in which the venture is diluted but not desired. Way of mourning for the objects and the body, wrapped in his narcissism omnipotenciainfantil.

Of grief that we expect others to do when death comes to close the destination.

It is a testament to true for any subject.

It is work that is performed on an object, or internal or external, between the subjective and social front: transitional? (Next to him but without mobility, malleability, or ability to disappear without a trace of the psyche).

Libidinal that is made, perelabora and progresses, and as that term is approaching the subject of aging and reduces wrinkles. After enduring life.

Becoming random schedule with presence and absence, between narcissism and otherness, pleasure and pain, waking world and the world of sleep and dreaming.

Accepting the idea of ​​a "sexed body and a body tomb" (S. Resnik, (1991), with its boundaries, and assuming vital space limits. Acquiring an interior space with depth and volume that hosts the ability to think, dreams, dream, create, stray, and light reflection with emotion.

Epic painful and fascinating.

Clinic of aging. Clinically, the term aging, to be distinguished from senescence-senescere-(aging), normal appearance, senile senilis-senex-(old), pathological aspect of the same process.



















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