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The Silence and Its Meaning in Human Life from a Psychoanalitical Point of View

Student: Eger Eleonora

Supervisor: Maria Chershintseva

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

In everyone's life, moments of silence arise one way or another. And the manifestations of silence, its meanings are always different, always individual for everyone. Translated from English, silence means silence, soundlessness or pause. So the many-sided images of silence are already differentiated, as the representations that each of us has associated with silence. This work is devoted to the study of the different attitudes towards silence of each person, which begins to form in the non-verbal period, develops in interaction with primary objects at the very initial (archaic) stages of mental development, as well as what effect silence has on the human mental apparatus. The work also examines the space of silence that arises in the process of psychoanalytic work and is necessary to launch the process of mentalization, as well as the different attitudes towards such pauses and silence of both the analyst and the patient, which once again speaks to the need for an individual approach. The analyst's silence may be golden and the only opportunity for the metallization process for one client, but the sudden silence can be deadly and destructive for another. The purpose of this work is to analyze the connection between silence that arose at various stages of early childhood and how certain characteristics and features of human behavior are formed, as well as the influence of early experiences of silence on the further functioning of the subject, his way of building relationships with objects and the choice of defenses using the example of sublimation as a kind of transitional object. This study examines and interconnects the works and articles of D. Winnicott, A. Green, R. Roussillon, Z. Freud and others. The conclusions made in the theoretical part are confirmed by a comparative analysis of the biographies and works of two famous people who faced audiosensory deprivation at different stages of childhood.

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