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Mother’s and Infant’s Emotional State: Aspects of Separation

Student: Turkina Yulia

Supervisor: Ekaterina Strizhova

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Business Consulting (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2020

The aim of our study is to observe and analyze the interaction between mother and child, to study the effect of mother stress on the quality of the relationship and reaction of the child, and to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms of transmission of emotional experiences from mother to child. Our study also addresses the issue of separation of mother anxiety and the transmission of this anxiety to the child, with reference to theoretical foundations based on the relationship and interaction of mother and child. We faced the following tasks: Theoretical: 1. To analyze the aspects of separation in the context of the interaction of the mother-child pair; 2. To consider the sources of separation, its mechanisms and phobias resulting from it; 3. Consider the main approaches to the complex of "dead mother"; 4. To analyze the mechanisms of transmission of emotional experiences from mother to child at an early age; 5. Consider the psychoanalytic method of monitoring a child in the family. Empirical tasks: 1. Observe the mother-child pair; 2. To analyze the characteristics of the dynamics of emotional state in a mother-child pair; 3. Find and analyze the mechanisms of transmission of the emotional state (experience) during short-term separation from the mother. The anxiety of separation passes through all forms of mental organization. This is manifested, in particular, in children, from phobic protection, phobias and inhibitions. Separation anxiety is a product of tension between seizure and a tendency toward detachment, between the aggressiveness necessary for development, and the fear of leaving or destroying the mother. It indicates a disorder during introjection of aggressive impulses. The results of this study confirm the data collected in previous studies. They show that something happens to the child when the model of parenting is compromised and the mother cares less about her child. In this work, we conducted a theoretical and empirical study of the relationship of the emotional state of mother and child. We observed and analyzed the interaction between the mother and the child in order to study the influence of the emotional experiences of the mother on the quality of the relationship and reactions of the child, as well as deepened our understanding of the mechanisms of transmission of emotional experiences from mother to child.

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