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Mother – infant interaction structures and presymbolic self- and object representations

  • In this paper we explore a few points emphasized by both Fairbairn and American Relational Theory related to conceptualizations of the new and old object and the implications for working in the analytic situation. Underlying much of our discussion is the belief that there are useful tensions between, on the one hand, Fairbairn's emphasis on our attachment to bad and old objects and refractory clinging to these bad objects in the face of receiving something new, and, on the other, a construal of a push or willingness toward integrating externality and newness of objects (e.g., Winnicott, 1969 Benjamin, 1988). American Relational models which explore complexities of interaction augment an understanding of Fairbairn's formulations of why we hold on to old objects. Fairbairn's theory also offers ways of understanding aspects of repetition, even, and sometimes especially, in trying to provide new experience.

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Author:Steven H. Cooper, David B. Levit
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 08 (1998), pp. 603-624.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1998
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Cooper_S_H_Levit_D_B_1998
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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