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Introduction by Fredrika Stjärne
The analysis induces emptiness. This is to say that, when the analyst succeeds in touching an important element of the nuclear complex of the dead mother, for a brief instant, the subject feels himself to be empty, blank, as though he were deprived of a stop-gap object, and a guard against madness. Effectively, behind the dead mother complex, behind the blank mourning for the mother, one catches a glimpse of the mad passion of which she is, and remains, the object, that renders mourning for her an impossible experience.
This is an introduction pointing to a paper that points to another paper. I came across Michal Adiv-Ginach's paper at a pivotal moment while writing my single case study in the final stretches of my training at CMPS. I was writing about a man exhibiting similar features to what Adiv-Ginach so vividly describes in her clinical vignettes, and her paper made a first link to the