Melanie Klein: Object Relation Theory Flashcards
1
Q
- first 4-6 months.
-infants begin life with an INHERITED PREDISPOSITION to reduce the anxiety.
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Psychic Life of the Infant
2
Q
-the infant possesses an active phantasy life.
- infants possess unconscious image good of “good” and “bad breast”
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Phantasies
3
Q
child wish to destroy one patient and sexually possess the other.
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Oedipus Complex
4
Q
- humans have innate drives or instincts.
- includes death instincts
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Objects
5
Q
2 Basic Positions of Infants.
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- Paranoid schizoid
- Depressive Position
6
Q
- infants come in to contact with both the good breastand bad breast
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- Paranoid Schizoid
7
Q
- infants begin to view external objects as a whole. realized that good and bad exist in the same person.
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- Depressive Position
8
Q
4 Psychic Defense Mechanism
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- Introjection
- Projection
- Splitting
- Projective Identification
9
Q
- infants fantasize taking into their body those perception and experiences that they have had with the external object, originally the mother’s breast.
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- Introjection
10
Q
- fantasy that one’s feelings and impulses actually reside in another person and not within one’s body
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- Projection
11
Q
- keeping apart incompatible impulses.
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- Splitting
12
Q
- infants split off unacceptable parts of themselves, project them onto another object, and finally introject them back into themselves
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- Projective Identification
13
Q
a person introjects aspects of the external world and then organizes those introjections
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Internalization
14
Q
a little sees her mother’s breast as both “good and bad”
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Female Oedipal Complex
15
Q
the little boy’s sees her mother’s breast as both good and bad.
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Male Oedipal Complex
