A superstitious psychotic child struggles against his or her solid identifications, and superstitions become unsuccessful defenses and disguises of identification, in view of the danger of psychic death in the presence of symbiotic psychotic regressions. Lupita, 10 years old, says she is possessed by evil spirits, like a body without a soul. She takes on the voices of others in order to survive and, through her superstitions, she attempts in vain to own a soul.
Psychoanalysis; processes psychotic; identifications