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A person’s character can be understood as the dispositions they have to act and respond to others in ways that reflect early experience. Hanna Segal suggested that we can see a difference between acting, rationally, on our desires and acting out, by acting on phantasies. The paper looks at Wollheim’s account of the role of disposition in mental life, and its connection to unconscious phantasy and acting out.
