Internal Editor and Internal Saboteur

Utilizing Fairbairn’s (1952) concepts of the “internal saboteur” and the “anti-libidinal ego,” Dr. Kavaler-Adler discusses the “internal editor,” which haunts the would-be writer (or any other creative person) - by censoring what he/she might wish to say before he/she can say it. The internal editor is a composite derived from a multitude of parental (judgmental) ‘introjects’ that prompt shame and guilt in the face of creative desire.

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The Object Relations View Podcast" is the place for all curious about human development and the WHYs of our behavior, relationships, and life trajectories - from the perspective of the Object Relations psychoanalytic school, British and American. Topics will include projective identification v. projection, self-sabotage, fear of success, loyalty to bad objects, love addiction, creativity and writing blocks, among many. New episodes every day, by psychoanalyst, theorist, author Susan Kavaler-Adler, a founder of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (www.orinyc.org)