KMID : 0385320140250010024
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society 2014 Volume.25 No. 1 p.24 ~ p.32
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The Analysis of Self-Mutilation in Adolescence Based on the Theory of Mentalization: From Sukhvinder in the Novel ¡®Casual Vacancy¡¯
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Oh Mi-Ae
Park Chan-Min Lee Yeon-Jeong Hong Min-Ha Han Ju-Hee Oh Soo-Hyun Park Jun-Heon Bahn Geon-Ho
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Abstract
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Objectives: Adolescence has developmental tasks, unique psychological characteristics and behaviors. Increase in internet and game addiction, school violence and suicide might be one aspect of adolescence or a psychopathological phenomenon. Software development for programs to prevent and solve adolescents¡¯ behavioral problems is urgent. To easily approach adolescents, we interpreted and found solutions for problematic adolescent characters in literature, based on the mentalization theory.
Methods: Among characters in Joan K. Rowling¡¯s novel ¡®Casual Vacancy¡¯, ¡®Sukhvinder¡¯ is a girl with epresentative problems of adolescents such as a victim of school ullying and selfmutilation. We targeted her problematic behaviors as the prementalistic modes.
Results: Sukhvinder, born in an elite English family with Pakistani origin, fails her parents¡¯ expectation unlike her siblings. Whenever she reaches a psychological crisis, she regresses into the teleologic mode, the primitive prementalization stage, and feels her sense of self by cutting herself. Barry Fairbrother, the Pagford¡¯s Parish Councillor, organizes and supports a rowing team. Being the authoritative gure, he helps enhance the mentalization of deviant students. After Barry¡¯s sudden death, Sukhvinder repeated regression and self-mutilation. However after her friend¡¯s suicide, she gets to commune with her parents and meets the momentum of mentalization.
Conclusion: By analyzing Sukhvinder¡¯s behavior, we assessed patterns of attachment, empathy and mentalization, and found corrective ways for problematic behaviors. We expect this interpretation may serve as the basic material for model development to understand adolescents¡¯ deviant behaviors, which would be applicable to psychiatrists, students and allied professionals of school mental health.
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KEYWORD
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Prementalization, Psychic equivalence, Self-mutilation, Casual vacancy, Teleologic mode, Pretend mode
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