Contribuição de Thomas Ogdenà obra kleiniana : o conceito de uma posição autista contígua

Abstract

This monograph aims to research the concept of autistic-contiguous position, proposed by psychoanalyst Thomas Ogden. In this sense the research was based on the theoretical surveys on Kleinian metapsychology, especially in the discovery of psychological positions paranoid schizoid and depressive, and studies of Ogden about the autistic contiguous position. From Klein´s consideration that psychological positions coexist in dialectic and represent basic forms of organization of anxieties, defenses and ways of establishing relations with the objects, Thomas Ogden introduces the concept of autistic contiguous position as a position above the paranoid-schizoid and depressive . Studies on the psychological positions of Klein and Ogden served to discussions about the diseases caused when some kind of break in the dialectic between them happens.