SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Oedipus Complex, Object Relations Theory, Death Drive
6 Jul 2019
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65 pounds: cause of death was listed as malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance, godel and einstein enjoyed a close friendship with einstein. Fairbairn"s theory of object relations: the fundamental difference between the freudian and fairbarinian versions of. Psychoanalysis has been neatly summarized by greenberg and mitchell: Fairbairn"s modification of the freudian psychoanalysis: fairbairn explained in his critical evaluation article, an assigned reading for this course, the modifications o he made to freudian theory. The libido is object seeking, not pleasure seeking . Formation of internal object relations: according to fairbairn, if a child has loving and nurturing primary caregivers, the normal process of personality development should occur rather smoothly, however, rarely, if ever, does the child have the perfect caregiver. The endopsychic structures: the optimal solution is to have the overriding experience of a loving primary caregiver, usually the mother. Isolated children, upon return, often reject their mothers.
