Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory

Internal objects. Self-objects. Object relations theory. Internal object world. These terms have pervaded the psychoanalytic literature in recent decades, and the ambiguities and variability in their usage have generated controversy and confusion among students, scholars, and practitioners. Is object relations theory simply a new name for what classical theorists have been doing all along? or an excursion into new realms wholly compatible with classical theory? or a fundamentally new system? “Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory” demonstrates that these controversies reflect conceptual difficulties that have been central to psychoanalytic theorizing from its inception.

Published 1983.

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