ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses upon the nature of the restitutive fantasies of the “entitled victim”, a term coined by P. Fuqua. It describes some circumstances under which a model of provision of selfobject experience, with interpretation of disappointment in empathic rupture, is necessary but not sufficient in order to be mutative. The chapter argues that a classical self-psychological model can be enriched by incorporating some of the ideas of theorists from the British Middle Group—particularly those whose work focuses upon schizoid defences such as Fairbairn and Guntrip. Other self psychologists also have attempted to expand the classical self-psychological model to encompass an understanding of self-structure and model of therapeutic action that goes beyond the disruption-restoration cycle of the self–selfobject bond. The entitled victim stance may be part of a self-protective strategy, which is designed to protect against narcissistic injury and to gain the yearned-for mirroring, but instead often serves to block repair.
