Psychic Life of the Infant

Question 1

These are psychic representations of unconscious id instincts.

Answer 1

Phantasies

Question 2

Infants who fall asleep while sucking on their fingers are phantasizing about having their mother’s _____ _____
inside themselves

Answer 2

good breast

Question 3

Hungry infants who cry and kick their legs are phantasizing that they are kicking or destroying the _____ ______.

Answer 3

bad breast

Question 4

The child’s wish to destroy
one parent and sexually possess the other.

Answer 4

Oedipus complex

Question 4

Klein (1948) believed that from early infancy children relate to these external _____, both in fantasy and in reality.

Answer 4

objects

Question 5

Drives, of course, must have some object. Thus, the hunger drive has the ____ ____ as its object, the sex drive has a _____ _____ as its object, and
so on.

Answer 5

good breast
sexual organ