Klein: Object Relation theory Flashcards
Refers to any person or part of person that infants introject or take into their psychic structure.
object
Klein assumed that very young infants possess an active unconscious fantasy life.
Fantasies ( Phantasy)
The struggles that infants experience with the good breast and the bad breast lead to two separate and opposing feelings.
paranoid- schizoid position
Klein meant the anxiety that infants experience around 6 months of age over losing their mother yet.
Depression position
Klein defined ____ as the fantasy taking into one’s own body the images that one has of an external object.
Introjection
The fantasy that one’s own feelings and impulses reside within another person is called.
Projection
Infants tolerate good and bad aspects of themselves and of external object.
Splitting
Is the psychic defense mechanism whereby infants split offs unacceptable parts of themselves.
Projective Identification
After introjecting external object infants organize them into psychologically meaningful framework, a process that Klein called.
internalization
T/F. In contrast to Freud’s, most Klein’s patients were children.
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T/F. In comparison to Freudian theory, object relations theory places more importance on interpersonal relations.
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T/F. During the early oedipal months, both boys and girls adopt a feminine position
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T/F. Mahler’s separation-individuation stage takes place from about the 4th or 6th year of life.
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T/F. During normal symbiosis, infants behave as if they and their mother were a unified, omnipotent system.
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