In its attempt to revive the past, the nostalgic illusion tries to re-establish the relationship with the primary object, avoiding, in this way, the mourning of separation from it. Through two clinical cases, different aspects of nostalgia could be defined. One of these aspects is described as the subject’s endeavor to take a drive revenge against a past that “won’t go away”: here, nostalgia acquires a compulsive character and comes as a response to early anxieties concerning the subject’s existence itself, reflecting deficits of primary narcissism, and thus an affinity with an unreachable ideal ego. On the contrary, nostalgia in its more evolved forms, since it is associated with the ego ideal, preserves—in a sacralized way—the bond with the object, to which the subject appears devoted and loyal, and comes as a defense against the re-emergence of the polymorphously perverse infantile sexuality.

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怀旧：主要客体复兴的失落之地——对怀旧某些临床方面的精神分析研究的贡献

为了复兴过去，怀旧幻觉试图重新建立与主要对象的关系，从而避免与它分离的哀悼。通过两个临床案例，可以定义怀旧的不同方面。其中一个方面被描述为对象努力对“不会消失”的过去进行报复：在这里，怀旧获得了一种强迫性特征，并作为对早期对对象存在本身的焦虑的反应，反映了缺陷主要的自恋，因此与无法达到的理想自我的亲和力。相反，由于它与自我理想相关联，怀旧在其更进化的形式中，以一种神圣的方式保留了与客体的联系，主体似乎对其忠诚和忠诚，