PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Ego Psychology, Object Relations Theory, Unconscious Mind

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Christa Philips

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Personality psych- chapter 11- psychoanalysis after freud: neo-freudians, object relations, and current research. The theme of most post-freudian psychoanalysts is to move away from his emphasis on built in sexual and aggressive instinct, toward a focus on the interpersonal aspects of life. The insight they take from freud is that our relationships with other people are mediated through our mental images of them- which sometimes do not much resemble the way they actually are. These partially accurate mental images are called objects, and the modern school of psychoanalysis that deals with their origin and implications is called objects relations theory. A close relative of object relations theory is attachment theory, which forces specifically on how attachments to significant other people called attachment figures, and our images of such attachments can be a buffer in times of stress. Peter grey (1988)- biography of freud includes a thorough and insightful survey of the development of.