PSYC 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Externalization, Reaction Formation, Melanie Klein
9 Apr 2018
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Self representation: mental expression of self as experienced in relationship with the objects in the child"s environment (significant persons). Shapes how a person relates towards others based on inner distorted pictures. Real objects need to be separated from internal object which are mental representations. Symbiosis: close, interdependent relationship between 2 organisms: still an agentic self. Object relations theory is the development psychology of early relationships with parents or caretakers: paranoid schizoid position: early position views the world as all good or all bad depressive position sees the world as shades of gray. Attachment theory: attachment styles: secure, avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, disorganized, splitting: advances development by splitting the whole objects into more manageable good or bad parts. Infants use it to help order early life experiences: death instinct: anxiety about death, epistemophilic instinct: desire to know. Curiosity: sadistic impulses: child"s means of protection from threatening enemies such as parents and caretakers, weaning: pivotal developmental event, triggers intense sadistic impulses.
