Abstract In interdisciplinary debates on the nature of the self, no-self accounts often refer to Buddhist psychology, arguing that the self is an illusion arising from our identification with mental content. What is often missing, however, is a developmentally, motivationally and emotionally plausible reason why this identification happens in the first place. It is argued that directing attention to our ongoing thought activities and their effect on our mind reveals their often invasive character. This is supported by psychoanalytic accounts on the ontogenetic and phylogenetic origins of thinking. On an experiential level, invading thoughts have similarities to attacks and provoke defensive reactions. The defense mechanism described as identification with the aggressor is used as a model in order to better grasp how we deal with invading thoughts, namely, by identifying with them and thus generating a sense of self as an agent of thoughts which provides an illusion of control.

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作为防御入侵思想的自我意识的发展：从佛教心理学到精神分析

摘要 在关于自我本质的跨学科辩论中，无我的说法经常提到佛教心理学，认为自我是我们对心理内容认同而产生的一种幻觉。然而，经常缺少的是为什么这种认同首先发生在发展、动机和情感上的合理原因。有人认为，将注意力集中在我们正在进行的思想活动及其对我们思想的影响上，揭示了它们经常具有侵略性的特征。这得到了关于思维的个体发生和系统发生起源的精神分析解释的支持。在经验层面上，入侵思想与攻击和引发防御反应有相似之处。被描述为与攻击者认同的防御机制被用作模型，以便更好地掌握我们如何处理入侵思想，