Family Center and Delinquency (Consequences of Neglect and the Dangers of Emotional Indifference) Journal Article

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Psychoanalysts had said that indifferent persons lack a super-ego or "superego," but after the publication of Melanie Klein's theory3, they believed that emotional apathy is the revival of the ancient moral conscience in indifferent individuals, which makes their behavior toward themselves and others accompanied by extraordinary violence and severe cruelty that destroys the home; this condition is called sadomasochism, where they harm both themselves and others. A- Emotional apathy is related to innate deficiency - the basis of this theory is founded on instinctive deviations which Dupre1, a famous French psychiatrist, has formulated under a specific style and method. Regarding instinctive deviations, Dupre writes: "What we mean by this term are the innate abnormalities of human tendencies observed in his moral and social activities. According to Dupre's theory, the primary instincts: self-preservation, reproduction, and social, may be normal, in which case they manifest in the form of numerous and diverse tendencies, and they may be abnormal, in which case they manifest as deviations. The diversion of an individual's normal emotional aptitudes toward their fellow beings is called malice and innate wickedness. " From all this discussion, it is concluded that: true deviations of the instinct of socialization arise from the diversion of normal emotional aptitudes in man toward his fellow beings. Thus, in Dupre's view, the source of emotional apathy is either an innate deprivation of the instinct of socialization, or that, emotionally, such individuals possess an affection that runs contrary to normal emotions and are considered deviant individuals.