THOP7

Question 1

This theory emphasized the nurturing and loving relationship between parent and child.

Answer 1

Object Relations Theory

Question 2

One of Klein’s basic assumptions is that the infant, even at birth possesses an active ___ life. These ___ are psychic representations of unconscious id instincts.

She simple meant that they posses unconscious images of “good” and “bad

Answer 2

Phantasies

Question 3

leads the infant to adopt a primitve defense mechanisms against what would otherwise be intolerable anxiety. It___ the mothjer intow two veryt different breasts (good and bad)

Answer 3

Splitting

Question 4

To feel both positive and negative feelins toward their loved ones
To be able to feel ___ about someone is an enormous psychological achievement and first marker on the path to genuine maturity.

Answer 4

Ambivalence

Question 5

is a moment of soberness and melancholy when the growing child takes on board (unconscious) the idea that reality is more complicated and less morally neat than it had ever previously imagined

The mother (or other people generally) cannot be neatly blamed for every setback. Almost nothing is totally pure or totally evil, things are a perplexing, thought-provking mixutre of good and bad.

Answer 5

Depressive Position

Question 6

• For many years even into adulthood, these unfortunate people will find themselves unable to to tolerate the slightest ambivalence: Keep to preserve their sense of their own innocence, they must either hate or love.
• they must seek scapegoats or idealize

in relationship they fall violently in love and then at some inevitable moment when a lover in some way disappoints them- switch abruptly and become incapable of feelings anything anymore.

Answer 6

Paranoid-Schizoid Position

Question 7

Klein agreed with Freud that humans have innate drives or instincts, including a death instinct. Drives, of course, must have some ____ Thus, the hunger drive has the good breast as its____ the sex drive has a sexual organ as its___and so on.

Answer 7

Objects -

Question 8

• Klein simply meant that infants fantasize taking into their body those perceptions and experiences that they have had with the external object, originally the mother’s breast.

Answer 8

Introjection

Question 9

• Just as infants use introjection to take in both good and bad objects, they use____ to get rid of them. ____ is the fantasy that one’s own feelings and impulses actually reside in another person and not within one’s body.

Answer 9

Projection

Question 10

a psychic defense mechanism in which 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. By taking the object back into themselves, infants feel that they have become like that object; that is, they identify with that object.

Answer 10

Projective Identification