Forum der Psychoanalyse

, Volume 28, Issue 1, pp 51–66 | Cite as

Einige Gedanken über Rationalisierung und Intellektualisierung

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Zusammenfassung

Im Rahmen des Freud’schen Verständnisses der Abwehr wird untersucht, ob Rationalisierung und Intellektualisierung als Abwehrmechanismen anzusehen sind. Es wird die Ansicht vertreten, dass sich beide auf den Umgang mit Ersatzbildungen beziehen, die aus anderen Abwehrmechanismen resultieren. Rationalisierung benennt den Gebrauch von Ersatzbildungen als Handlungsbegründungen. Vermittelt über den Einsatz unterschiedlicher Abwehrmechanismen erscheinen und verbergen sich in diesen Bildungen die ursprünglichen Motive in Ich-syntonen und gesellschaftlich approbierten Ersatzmotiven im Bewusstsein. Intellektualisieren bezieht sich auf den Umgang mit Ersatzbildungen, die auf einem hohen Abstraktionsniveau liegen. Diese Ersatzbildungen sind das Produkt eines Prozesses, in dem Triebwünsche von den sie begleitenden Gefühlen isoliert und mittels weiterer Abwehrmechanismen in bewusstseinskonforme Vorstellungen transferiert werden, in denen sich das Ersetzte ebenfalls verschlüsselt darstellt.

Considerations about rationalization and intellectualization

Abstract

Within the framework of Freud’s defence concept the question is examined whether rationalization and intellectualization should be regarded as separate mechanisms of defence. It is argued that both of them represent a specific handling of substitutive formations produced by other mechanisms of defence. Rationalization refers to the usage of substitutive formations as the reason for action. In the guise of these ego-syntonic and socially approved substitutive motives the original motives are hidden and appear encrypted in consciousness. Intellectualization names the handling of the outcome of a process in which instinctual wishes are isolated from their accompanying feelings and by virtue of further mechanisms of defence, these wishes are transferred in highly abstract substitutive formations where they also represent themselves in a mystified manner.

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