a particular drive to be normal, one that is typified by the numbing and eventual erasure of subjectivity in favour of a self that is conceived as a material object among other man-made products in the object world. We are attending an increasing number of disturbances in personality which may be characterized by partial deletions of the subjective factor. Therefore, we write of ‘blank selves’ (Giovacchini, 1972), ‘blank psychoses’ (Donnet and Green, 1973), and an ‘organizing personality’ (Hedges, 1983).
