Through psychotherapy, Freud traced the origins of her self-directed anger toward the woman's mother. The spot on the woman's arm that she continuously picked at happened to be the same spot in which her mother had a birth mark. With Freud's help the woman discovered that she had subsumed her personal identity by her mother's: instead of acknowledging her hatred of her mother she developed self-hatred. Appignanesi notes that the extreme misi

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, internalized feelings, original target, infantile narcissism,
Approximate Word count = 297
Approximate Pages = 1 (250 words per page double spaced)