Klein Flashcards
a part of a person, or a thing through which the aim is satisfied
Object
“In order to separate bad and good objects, the ego must itself be split. Thus, Infants develop a picture of the ‘good me’ and ‘bad me’ that enables them to deal with both pleasurable and destructive impulses toward external objects.” what psychic defense mechanism is this?
Splitting
“is the fantasy that one’s own feelings and impulses actually reside in another person and not within one’s body.” what psychic defense mechanism is this?
Projection
“a psychic defense mechanism in which infants split off unacceptable parts of themselves, project them into another object, and finally introject them back into themselves in a changed or
distorted form” what psychic defense mechanism is this?
Projective Identification
a mental representation of a child’s first experiences.
Phantasy
Is established when the infant relates to a “mirroring” self object who reflect approval of its behavior
Grandiose Exhibitionistic Self
a way of organizing experiences that includes both paranoid feelings of being persecuted and a splitting of internal and external objects into the good and the bad
paranoid-schizoid position
or ways of dealing with both internal and external objects
Position
Is opposed to the grandiose self because it implies that someone else is perfect
Idealized parent image
early superego produces not guilt but _______
Terror
“infants fantasize taking into their body those perceptions and experiences that they have had with the external object, originally the mother’s breast”
what psychic defense mechanism is this?
Introjection
The feelings of anxiety over losing a loved object coupled with a sense of guilt for wanting to destroy that object
Depressive position
