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Matrix of the mind. An investigation into mother–child continuity
Author(s) -
Azzone Paolo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.1537
Subject(s) - unconscious mind , object relations theory , psychology , matrix (chemical analysis) , object (grammar) , set (abstract data type) , representation (politics) , psychoanalysis , interpersonal communication , interpersonal relationship , product (mathematics) , social psychology , psychoanalytic theory , philosophy , computer science , mathematics , composite material , programming language , geometry , linguistics , materials science , politics , political science , law
Matrix , Wachowsky sisters' blockbuster, depicts an ominous scenario where sensory reality is illusory and the feigned product of hostile forces. Such general mistrust towards the contents of experience has underlain the whole course of Western philosophy from Plato to Descartes. The paper explores the hypothesis the movie reflects a basic human anxiety about unconscious representation of interpersonal reality. Relying on some basic insights of Freud's and Fairbairn's the author propose a model of human dependence where the passive sharing of the love‐object's unconscious phantasies is a basic dimension. This set of resident object's phantasies is termed matrix . The hypothesis is illustrated through clinical material.