object-usage

is a mode of interacting with objects as independent entities. Compare with 'object-relating'.

Winnicott uses the term 'object-relating' to refer to the situation in which thesubject interacts with the object as if it were 'a bundle of projections' (Winnicott,1969). 'Object use', on the other hand, implies the subject's recognition that an objectexist in its own right and has its own properties:. . . 'may I leave it at that, that relating can be described in terms of the individual subject, and that usage cannot be described except in terms of acceptance of the object's independent existence, its property of having been there all the time'(Winnicott, 1969, p. 712) (patricia townsend 124)

object usage, n.Definitions

object usage