This study is based on the psychoanalytical care of a patient for a brief three-month period. Since thought-provoking questions emerged during this period of care, and especially after its tragic outcome, this paper presents a comprehensive and meta-psychological outline concerning important and crucial early human development issues. The theoretical and clinical connections represent constructs and hypotheses that are based on an analytical relationship that is limited in time, but that has inspired many reflections and formulations by psychoanalysts.
Melancholy; obsessional neurosis; idealization; narcissism; destructive narcissism; resentment