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[...] « The subject inhabits the object in the same way that it is inhabited by it » ; « An allergic person has only one desire, unique and capital, to get closer to the object until they merge with it ». They have highlighted the weakness of 'neurotic defense mechanisms', and have attributed 'to somatic symptoms, a substitutive value but devoid of symbolic dimension'. Their theory is based on the hypothesis of a correlation between « a faulty mental functioning and the possibility of developing somatization4 ». According to P. Marty of the population are affected by essential allergic organizations. [...]
[...] The allergic crisis occurs either during the perception of a new object or during the disappearance of the object, for example, the loss of a home during a move. According to M. Fain, there is, in the allergic subject, a 'determining psychosomatic fixation' that explains why the allergic subject does not distinguish 'the other as such'. The 'essential allergic personality' comes from the expression 'essential allergy' used by P. Marty to designate individuals who must achieve a maximum fusion with the object, in order to reach a level of undifferentiation. For these personalities, somatization is a bulwark against the collapse of their personality. [...]
[...] By remaining in the maternal context, the subject finds an identity. Thus, the allergic subject will project a maternal image onto all people, whether men or women, and when a person different from the mother appears in the relational context of the allergic subject, an obstacle occurs in the depersonalization of their self. The losing subject, at this moment, loses the identity acquired in the maternal relationship, and finds itself facing a 'void of non-constitution of self'. At this stage, the allergic subject does not present an anxiety of depersonalization, but shows an 'organic pathology', which essentially refers to either asthma or eczema. [...]
[...] This indistinction between himself and others causes many slips of the tongue. It is also worth noting that this capture of the object is immediate, and is the origin of a strong capacity for empathy. The failure of the attempt will provoke either an asthma, eczema or urticaria crisis. These symptomatic manifestations of allergic reactions characterize the specific organization of the essential allergic personality. The allergic personality is a structure that can be maintained into adulthood, however, it is not found in all patients, but some may present fragile neurotic structures. [...]
[...] MARTY, starting from an individual in a state of illness and analyzing their psychic functioning, he seeks to grasp the circumstances in which the somatic disease appeared, and what sense it is to be given. With the team of the 'psychosomaticians of the Paris school'3, P. Marty, in describing 'theOorganisation Aallergic Eessential', has shown that psychosomatic illnesses are not necessarily linked to personality traits. However, allergy appears to be the only exception, in that allergic people have problems recognizing others in their alterity. [...]
