Den internaliserede krænker

- en analyse af et incestoffer

Abstract

The article is an empirical investigation into the personality development in a victim of early and cruel incest. The material is obtained and analyzed in a cooperation between the victim and her psychoterapist, who is one of the authors. In very broad terms the authors agree with Ferenczi's theory of identification with the aggressor, but the victim's specific personality strategies - including borderline and psychotic traits, are analyzed within the theoretical framework of the Theory of Activity, having Leontjew as a major influence. The authors use their own concept of »de-coupling of the activity« as a tool to understand severe psychopathological strategies.