Aurorismus: Klinische Erscheinungsform einer ‘weiblichen Analogie’ zur Perversion

Abstract

There have been no convincing ideas to date explaining the far less frequent occurrence of perverse symptom formation in females compared to males. Unlike the intrapsychic mechanisms for self-esteem regulation in males as a basic component of perversion--extraphysically (compensatory) culminating in an output of sexual impulses--a functional stabilisation of the female self-concept seems more likely if conflict drives were to be focussed on reproductional aspects and not on sexuality. Hence, it seems--in linguistic analogy to perversion--more suitable to use a new expression: "reproversion". A case history of "aurorism" gives an example of a clinical manifestation in terms of "reprovese" symptom formation. A general survey describes the main points of view in regard to a clinically orientated subdivision, namely intensity, the ego-proximity in the personality structure and the own self-acceptance within the "reproverse" symptom formation as well as a view of the underlying personality disturbances.