Concept
Object relations theory
Overview
theory in psychoanalytic psychology
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From this ego proceed the repressions, too, by means of which an attempt is made to cut off certain trends in the mind not merely from consciousness but also from their other forms of manifestation and activity. In analysis these trends which have been shut out stand in opposition to the ego and the analysis is faced with the task of removing the resistances which the ego displays against concerning itself with the…
Sigmund Freud, The ego and the id
Close in meaning to Object relations theory; the term itself is not named.
Thus, instead of an existential world that is "a network of relations whose intersections are called terms" (p. 622), I find more intelligible a qualitatively heterogeneous reality that can be variously partitioned into things, and that can he abstractly replaced by systems of terms and relations that are adequate to symbolize their effective nature in particular respects. There is a tendency for certain attributes…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
States what Object relations theory is.
As a supplement to the law of resultants, and yet at the same time in a certain sense as an expression for the same psychical regularity, we have "the law of conditioning relations." Just as the law of resultants joins into one unified expression the forms of psychical synthesis, so we may say that the law of relations is the analytic principle, which arranges under one general rule the relations of the components…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, An Introduction to Psychology Translated from the Second German Edition
Close in meaning to Object relations theory; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Melanie Klein
- Psychiatry
- Anna Freud
- Psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychotherapy
- Sigmund Freud
- Psyche (psychology)
Place in the tradition
Part of Psychoanalytic theory.