ABSTRACT
In psychology, there is no problem more obscure and more discussed than structure of the mind. Complexity of the data, and the overwhelming difficulty of establishing connections within that convolution, determines that the outlining of any psychic structure is a singularly delicate job. The abandonic has the most primitive psychic structure of all and, as a consequence, exhibits behaviour that is the least socialised. With regard to males, the conjunction of oedipal phenomena and abandonment anxiety creates in this version of the neurosis a structure that is much more complicated. Within the structure of abandonment neurosis, it seems necessary to distinguish between the intervention of libidinal drives at their different stages and the characteristic maladjustments that fixation by an individual on one or other of the libidinal phases produces. Certain patients demonstrate particular manifestations of abandonment neurosis that can give rise to diagnostic confusion.
