Aim. The paper will revisit nature of symbolization in depressive position with respect to its realization in external reality. Base for the analysis will be Hanna Segal paper Delusions and artistic creativity: some reflections on reading “The Spire” by William Golding (Segal, 1974/1988), enriched with findings she presented in her later paper Acting on phantasy and acting on desire (Segal, 1992/2007), context for the analysis will be provided by Kleinian psychoanalytic framework. Methods. Psychoanalysis core interest is thinking and thought formation. In the paper I will try to move this emphasis on examining pure thinking into exploration of mixture that thought and action create. I will therefore analyse on what tokens mind content can be put into action, and conversely how action is being incorporated into thought. I will perform the study using Hanna Segal interpretation of The Spire by William Golding, which she issued on 1974. I will also reach out to her other papers to broaden the interpretation, including the paper she wrote almost twenty years later on Festschrift for her colleague, philosopher Richard Wollheim (Segal, 1992/2007), that actually proposes the solid linkage between thinking and its expressions in the world. The study will be performed with reference to Kleinian psychoanalytic framework, it will be centred around object relation and anxieties the object arouses (paranoid schizoid and depressive positions), with respect to their impact on thought formation (symbolization, sublimation). Results and conclusions. Analysis of relationship between symbolisation and action enhances understanding of two main responses to depressive position: sublimation and maniac defences, for it explores the extent to which ego benefits/refuses to benefit from internal and external reality. While the rereading Segal interpretation of The Spire allows to spot how creative act enables capturing most difficult internal and external truths, it also reveals – when put in context of Wollheim’s concept of acting on phantasy and acting on desire- that maniac response is less a form of protection and more a direct attack on receptivity and penetrating exploration for their associations to primary scene. Cognitive value. Studying depressive symbolization as a vehicle for acting on either phantasy or desire reveals, that employment of behavioural component forces to revisit maniac defences in light of their actual aftermath in external world. Such refined view onto depressive defences further contributes to improved differentiation of symbolization in depressive position, for it puts under scrutiny relation between ego and performed action. It allows to recognize that in addition to symbol proper (formed by anxiety for object) and symbolic equation (defined by anxiety of object), there is also partly malformed form of symbol shaped by maniac defences (and so by absence of anxiety for object), which disfiguration is best examinable in changes to external reality it makes.

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在思想与行动之间：抑郁状态的象征及其外在表现

目标。相对于在外部现实中的实现，本文将重新探讨处于压抑状态的符号的本质。分析的基础将是汉娜·西格尔（Hanna Segal）的论文《妄想与艺术创造力》：对威廉·戈尔丁（Segal，1974/1988）读的《尖塔》的一些思考，并丰富了她在后来的论文《幻想中的行动》和《欲望中的行动》（ （Segal，1992/2007），分析背景将由Kleinian精神分析框架提供。方法。精神分析的核心兴趣是思考和思想形成。在本文中，我将尝试把重点放在研究纯思想上，以探索思想与行动所产生的混合。因此，我将分析可以将哪些标记的思想内容付诸行动，以及相反如何将行动纳入思想中。我将使用汉娜·西格尔（Hanna Segal）对威廉·戈尔丁（William Golding）于1974年发表的《尖顶》的解释来进行这项研究。我还将接触她的其他论文，以扩大解释范围，包括她将近二十年后在Festschrift上为同事撰写的论文哲学家理查德·沃尔海姆（理查德，1992/2007年）实际上提出了思维与世界表达之间的牢固联系。这项研究将参照克莱因心理学分析框架进行，它将围绕对象关系和对象引起的焦虑（偏执型精神分裂症和抑郁性姿势），以及它们对思想形成的影响（符号化，升华）。结果和结论。通过分析符号与动作之间的关系，可以加深对抑郁状态的两种主要反应的理解：升华和疯狂的防御，因为它探讨了自我受益/拒绝从内部和外部现实中受益的程度。重读Segal对《尖顶》的解释可以发现创造性行为是如何捕捉最困难的内在和外在真理的，但同时也揭示出-在沃尔姆（Wollheim）的幻想角色和欲望行为概念的背景下-狂躁反应不是一种形式的保护，更直接地攻击他们的接受性，并探索与原始场景的关联。认知价值。将抑郁象征作为研究幻想或欲望的手段进行研究后发现，根据外部世界的实际后果，采用行为分力重新审视疯狂的防御。对抑郁防御的这种精妙观点进一步有助于改善抑郁状态中符号的区分，因为它使自我与所采取的行动之间受到严格的审查。它允许认识到，除了适当的符号（由对对象的焦虑所形成）和符号方程式（由对象的焦虑所定义）之外，符号的一部分形式也受到畸形防御的影响而畸形（因此，对对象的不存在焦虑） ，这种变形最能证明其对外部现实的改变。