Lesson 5 Flashcards
Mental representation or images of people
Object
These are representations of specific body parts or functions of others, typically associated with pleasure or discomfort
Part-objects
These are more complete representations of people, incorporating both positive and negative aspects.
Whole-objects
psychic representations of unconscious id instincts.
Phantasies
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
Children in the_________ recognize that the loved object and the hated object are now one and the same.
Depressive position
infants fantasize taking into their body those perceptions and experiences that they have had with the external object, originally the mother’s breast.
Introjection
fantasy that one’s own feelings and impulses actually reside in another person and not within one’s body. Allows people to believe that their own subjective opinions are true.
Projection
keeping apart incompatible impulses.
Splitting
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.
Projective identification
children’s fear of retaliation from their parent for their fantasy of emptying the parent’s body.
Oedipus complex
child becomes an individual separate from his or her primary caregiver, an accomplishment that leads ultimately to a sense of identity.
Psychological birth
period of absolute primary narcissism in which an infant is unaware of any other person.
Normal Autism
infants gradually realize that they cannot satisfy their own needs, they begin to recognize their primary caregiver and to seek a symbiotic relationship with her.
Normal symbiosis
children become psychologically separated from their mothers, achieve a sense of individuation, and begin to develop feelings of personal identity.
Separation-individuation
marked by a bodily breaking away from the mother-infant symbiotic orbit.
Differentiation
children easily distinguish their body from their mother’s, establish a specific bond with their mother, and begin to develop an autonomous ego.
Practicing
desire to bring their mother and themselves back together, both physically and psychologically.
Rapprochement
children must develop a constant inner representation of their mother so that they can tolerate being physically separate from her.
Libidinal object constancy
When their caregiver is first out of sight, infants will cry, resist soothing by other people, and search for their caregiver.
Protest stage
infants become quiet, sad, passive, listless, and apathetic.
Despair
infants become emotionally detached from other people, including their caregiver.
Detachment
when their mother returns, infants are happy and enthusiastic and initiate contact.
Secure attachment
when their mother leaves the room, they become unusually upset, and when their mother returns they seek contact with her but reject attempts at being soothed.
Anxious-resistant attachment
