Dear colleagues,
We invite you to join our online Seminar with Ronnie Solan PhD, Senior Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist (Israel) on Tuesday, the 12th October, 2020 at 18.00pm time in Tel Aviv (please check your time).
1. The Healthy Narcissism can be defined as an Emotional Immune System (Solan, 1998).Healthy narcissism is based on Freud’s “primary narcissism”. “Freud perceived normal narcissism as “self-love [that] works for the preservation of the individual” (1921b, p. 101). Following Freud, I have come to assume the existence of an innate emotional immune system that processing as “Self-preservation”, to protect the sense of the familiar Self against stranger stimuli that risks invading the sense of familiarity of the Self. The healthy Narcissism is safeguarding the love for the Self, the sense of me, of who am I and of Self Esteem before being able to maintain love relations with the familiar object.The baby, in the Oral stage is delighted and happy when he feels loved, recognized as he is and attracted to bond with his familiar object who provides satisfaction and pleasure. This bonding is one of the aspects that Freud described as “primary narcissism”. “Narcissism in this sense,” said Freud would be “the libidinal complement to the egoism of the instinct of self-preservation, a measure of which may justifiably be attributed to every living creature” (1914a, pp. 73-74).
2. Narcissism, as an Emotional Immune System, is processing by attraction to what is familiar and by resistance to any hint of strangeness. This conceptualization might remind us the processing of the biological immune system.Dr. Tarabanov highlighting of the influence of such bonding, along the experience of primary narcissism, on the brain – adds an important value to the primary narcissism. Accumulation of such positive memory traces emerges in both baby and parent attraction to this familiarity and even addiction to this bonding. Hence, accumulated of positive memory traces of primary narcissistic bonding experiences, immune the Self Love and Object love and serve as pivotal stone of the healthy narcissism.
3. Concomitantly, when the baby feels injured, shamed, or frustrated by his parent–his familiar Self is invaded by anxiety of object loss and trauma. His beloved and familiar Object turned suddenly to be a stranger that threatens his security of the familiar Self and familiar Object. It usually evokes what we generally name as “narcissistic” injury and anger. Invasion of accumulation of such negative memory traces, of injuries, shaming and trauma, produces destructive memory traces to the Self. Hence, the Pathological Autoimmune Narcissism is processing. Or as Dr. Arseny Tarabanov defines it “narcissism deflation”.Also we will talk about:- the dyadic mechanism of mother/child interaction and “primary narcissism” and hyperarousal of the sympathetic nervous system, produced by a hyperactivation of the mesocortical component of the ventral tegmental dopaminergic limbic circuit. – early period of heightened pleasure and “primary narcissism.” The role of obitofrontal involvement in the pleasurable qualities of social interaction.- the shame and narcissism deflation as psychobiological state which represents a sudden shift from sympathetic-predominant ergotropic arousal to parasympatheticdominant trophotropic arousal. See also (Schore, 2015)
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