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KMID : 0376619940190030127
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1994 Volume.19 No. 3 p.127 ~ p.148
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Marriage and Divorce: an Overview
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Abstract
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This article article is composed of five parts ; selection of the mate, psychodynamics of interrelation between the husband and the wife, marital dysfunction, divorced parents, and the children of divorced parents. Among the factors involving
selection
of the mate, unconscious ones such as repressed incest wishes, repetition compulsion, narcissism, and regarding one's wife as his penis are most important, Also there are many unconscious factors such as unresolved Oedipus complex and
incest-taboo,
devaluation of love, hostility out of disappointment in oedipal relationship, narcissism, exhibitionism, "I am exceptional", and castration and castration anxiety involved in the aspects of power, nurture, intimacy, trust, fidelity and life
style,
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the long happily married ones become similar in body feagures, ways of thinking and feeling, psychophysiology, and facial figures. Marital dysfunction comes from intrapsychic factors such as revival of infantile conflicts, from interpersonal
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such as mutual projection and projective identification, and from socio-cultural factors. Most societies have a double-standard in marriage, which regard marriage as coupe's and his or her's. Usually husbands want to rule, to be independent from
the
parents and in-laws, to do things together, and are attracted to sexual appeals, while wives want to be ruled, to be closer to in-laws, to discuss and act together, and are attracted to the ability in providing financial security in men For the
past
twenty years the divorce rate has rapidly jumped-up in east and west, and it's rate among koreans in early 1990s has reached one out of seven couples from one out of twenty in early 1970s. feminist movement, increase of employment of women, new
trend
which accepts divorce in Protestant churches, scientific development of medicine in human sexuality, prolonged life expectancy, and increase of stresses in modern life are contributing factors of increasement of the divorce in modern societies.
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divorced single parent experiences depression, anxiety, and rage during the phase of divorce, feelings of relief and freedom in three-months period after divorce, and grief, ambivalence and loneliness afterward The children relatively more
vulnerable to
the trauma due to parental divorce are boys, single child, and the one aged between 6~8 years. Recent studies show that divorce is being inherited in generations.
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