When "sex" is the sole interpersonal bonding means: A case of a women with a minus pairing valency
著者
MED Hafsi
(Med hafushi)
社会学部
版
publisher
出版地
奈良
出版者
奈良大学
上位タイトル
奈良大学紀要
(Memoirs of the Nara University).
Vol.35号,
(2007.
3)
,p.121-
133
識別番号
ISSN
03892204
抄録
The concept of valency was borrowed by Bion (1961) from chemistry and used metaphorically by him to describe the bond linking the individual to the group's mental activity he called the basic assumption group. He regarded valency as "a spontaneous, unconscious function of the gregarious quality in the personality of man" (p.136), and an "individual readiness to enter into combination with the group in making and acting on the basic assumptions" (p.116). In the present paper the author discussed first the concept of valency as conceived by Bion, then provided a brief description of how he further developed the concept, focussing mainly on his original concept or model of minus valency (Hafsi, 2006). Moreover, the author presented also a clinical vignette from the psychotherapy with a female client who had been resorting to a minus pairing valency in her vain attempts to relate to others, especially men. Finally, he discussed the conceptual value of the valency (including minus valency) model as developed by him, comparing it briefly with Bowlby's attachment theory.
