Melanie Klein

Question 1

depressive position

Answer 1

Feelings of anxiety over losing a loved object coupled with a sense of guilt for wanting to destroy that object.

Question 2

introjection

Answer 2

Fantasizing taking external objects, such as the mother’s breast, into one’s own body

Question 3

paranoid-schizoid position

Answer 3

A tendency of the infant to see the world as having the same destructive and omnipotent qualities that it possesses.

Question 4

positions

Answer 4

Ways in which an infant organizes its experience in order to deal with its basic conflict of love and hate. The two positions are the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position.

Question 5

projective identification

Answer 5

A psychic defense mechanism in which infants split off unacceptable parts of themselves, project them onto another object, and then introject them in a distorted form.

Question 6

object relations theory

Answer 6

focuses on the internalized relationships individuals have with significant others, termed “objects.” It emphasizes the early mother-child bond and how these early experiences shape one’s personality and emotional development.