aggression

denial

liquid object

object relations

trauma

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Austrian

British

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psychoanalyst

innovator in the field of

child psychology

object relations theory

psychoanalysis

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scientific organization

Magyar Pszichoanalitikus Egyesület

British Psychoanalytical Society

is always affectively hostile and effectively destructive, intending to harm and hurt. The source of such destructiveness is the instinct itself, deeply embedded in the child's mind. External frustration may aggravate the intensity of the aggression, but does not create it.

For Klein, aggression is always affectively hostile and effectively destructive, intending to harm and hurt. The source of such destructiveness is the instinct itself, deeply embedded in the child's mind. External frustration may aggravate the intensity of the aggression, but does not create it. The child brings it as part of his or her internal makeup. Thus, the kleinian child, as Richard's example illustrates, is compelled to hate and be hostile and to create bad objects. The child's ego is, at best, manager of a compelling drive forcing him to have bad objects and to try to harm others and then to worry about their 'motivated retaliation.' Klein's theory of aggression has a subject, but a subject dominated and enslaved by the aggressive drive.

is aimed at erasing the awareness of dependence upon others.

Omnipotence is utilized to control and master objects, but without genuine concern for them. Denial is aimed at erasing the awareness of dependence upon others. Idealization (e.g., over-admiration, thinking in large numbers) tenaciously . . . Quest for Answers: A Primer of Understanding and Treating Severe . . . Salman Akhtar 1994 P. 59

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is the internalized projected rage of the frustrated child.

For Klein, it is the internaized projected rage of the instinctually frustrated child that becomes traumatic, and it is the developmental accomplishment of the restoration and preservation of the good object in the (subsequent) depressive position that serves as its antidote'

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