PEP | Article - International Journal of Psychoanalysis. XLIV, 1963: Alice and the Red King. The Psychoanalytic View of Existence. Joseph C. Solomon. Pp. 63-73.

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Abstract

The child's sense of existence is contingent upon internalizing the mother who has internalized him. Examples of the thesis are a patient who dreamed she existed only in the dream of a giant, and Alice in Wonderland who was told by

Tweedledum she would exist only so long as the Red King dreamed about her. A detailed clinical account supports the thesis. Various views of existence, including existentialism, are discussed.

PEP | Article - International Journal of Psychoanalysis. XLIV, 1963: Alice and the Red King. The Psychoanalytic View of Existence. Joseph C. Solomon. Pp. 63-73. - The Psychoanalytic Quarterly