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Title: The Ideal and the Despised in Pregnancy
A Case Report
This paper describes a patient's view of and relationship with herself and her internal objects via an extended case report of the patient's pregnancy. The pregnancy awakened fantasies of an internal object intent on doing harm to the patient. She was beset by fears of bodily intrusion and damage, which were linked in the transference to the patient's powerful oedipal dynamics and rivalry with her own mother. What ensued was a complex interplay of self-idealization and a feeling of despising herself and her primary objects. The relationship with the analyst was a catalyst for this exploration.
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