A New Reading of the Origins of Object-Relations Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas H Ogden (0000-0001-8800-1435, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 767-782 |
| Publication date | 2002-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/00207570260173497 |
| PMID | 12204163 |
| OpenAlex | W2140512617 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 2 |
The author presents a reading of Freud's "Mourning and melancholia" in which he examines not only the ideas Freud was introducing, but, as important, the way he was thinking/writing in this watershed paper. The author demonstrates how Freud made use of his exploration of the unconscious work of mourning and of melancholia to propose and explore some of the major tenets of a revised model of the mind (which later would be termed "object-relations theory"). The principal tenets of the revised model presented in this 1917 paper include: (1) the idea that the unconscious is organised to a significant degree around stable internal object relations between paired split-off parts of the ego; (2) the notion that psychic pain may be defended against by means of the replacement of an external object relationship by an unconscious, fantasied internal object relationship; (3) the idea that pathological bonds of love mixed with hate are among the strongest ties that bind internal objects to one another in a state of mutual captivity; (4) the notion that the psychopathology of internal object relations often involves the use of omnipotent thinking to a degree that cuts off the dialogue between the unconscious internal object world and the world of actual experience with real external objects; and (5) the idea that ambivalence in relations between unconscious internal objects involves not only the conflict of love and hate, but also the conflict between the wish to continue to be alive in one's object relationships and the wish to be at one with one's dead internal objects
Collective unconscious · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Internal conflict · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Object relations theory · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Reading (process · Unconscious mind · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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Systems of pathological accommodation and change in analysis
The Seam Between Life and Death and Therapeutic Presence
Beyond mourning and melancholia
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Readings of Winnicott II
Freud's ‘problem’
The profession of ferryman
Fear of breakdown and the unlived life
In conversation
The profession of ferryman
The feeling of real
Reading Harold Searles
Post Memory as Trauma in Anees Salim’s The Blind Lady’s Descendants
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |