OBJECT-RELATIONS PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

Object-Relations Theory is the idea that the ego-self exists only in relation to other objects, which may be external or internal. The internal objects are internalized versions of external objects, primarily formed from early interactions with the parents.  There are three fundamental 'affects' that can exist between the self and the other - attachment, frustration, and rejection.  These affects are universal emotional states that are major building blocks of the personality.

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Philosophers / Theorists:

• Melanie Klein (1882 - 1960)

• Joan Rivière (1883 - 1962)

• W. R. D. Fairbairn (1889 - 1965)

• Michael Balint (1896 - 1970)

• D. W. Winnicott (1896 - 1971)

• Margaret Mahler (1897 - 1985)
• Otto Kernberg (1928 - )

Topics:

• Psychoanalytic Literary Theory

Feminist:

• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Feminist Theory
• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Feminist Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Post-colonial Theory
• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Post-colonial Literary Theory

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• Anthologies:

  • Buckley, Peter, ed.  Essential Papers on Object Relations.  New York: New York UP, 1983.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bion, Wilfred R. 

  • Greenberg, Jay, and Stephen Mitchell.  Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1983.

  • Hughes, J.  Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain: the Work of Melanie Klein, W. R. D. Fairbairn and W. D. Winnicott. Berkeley: U of California P, 1989.

  • Kernberg, Otto F.  Internal World and External Reality.  New York: Jason Aronson, 1980.

  • Kernberg, Otto F.  Object Relations Theory and Clinical Psychoanalysis.  Northvale, NJ.: Jason Aronson, 1976.

  • Mitchell, S. A.  Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis: an Integration.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988.

  • Newman, Kenneth M., and Howard A. Bacal.  Theories of Object Relations: Bridges to Self-Psychology.  New York: Columbia UP, 1990.

  • Ogden, Thomas.  The Matrix of the Mind: Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue.  London: Karnac, 1992.

  • Rogers, Robert.  Self and other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature.  New York: New York UP, 1991.

  • Summers, Frank.  Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: a Comprehensive Text.  Hillsdale, NJ.: Analytic Press, 1994.

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On-Line:

• Daniels, Victor: Object Relations Theory

• Sandberg, David: Object Relations

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Object Relations Theory

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

USA:

• International Institute of Object Relations Therapy (IIORT)
• Object Relations Institute

WWW GATEWAYS

• Klee, Thomas: Object Relations Theory and Psychotherapy

• Object Relations Home Page

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