Theories of Personality 9th Edition

140 Part II Psychodynamic Theories self-realization, which also are not clearly differentiated. Jung’s language is often arcane, ...

Chapter 4 Jung: Analytical Psychology 141 they must be willing to set aside the goals and behaviors of youth and adopt a new sty ...

142 CHAPTER 5 Klein © Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/ Getty Images Klein: Object Relations Theory ⬥ (^) Overview of Object Relat ...

Chapter 5 Klein: Object Relations Theory 143 M elanie Klein, the woman who developed a theory that emphasized the nurtur- ing an ...

144 Part II Psychodynamic Theories sense of identity rests on a three-step relationship with their mother. First, infants have b ...

Chapter 5 Klein: Object Relations Theory 145 produced three children: Melitta, born in 1904; Hans, born in 1907; and Erich, born ...

146 Part II Psychodynamic Theories Klein’s years in London were marked by division and controversy. Although she continued to re ...

Chapter 5 Klein: Object Relations Theory 147 greater psychological significance. Although different drives may seem to have sepa ...

148 Part II Psychodynamic Theories one parent and sexually possess the other. (Klein’s notion of the Oedipus complex is discusse ...

Chapter 5 Klein: Object Relations Theory 149 to control the breast by devouring and harboring it. At the same time, the infant’s ...

150 Part II Psychodynamic Theories Depressive Position Beginning at about the 5th or 6th month, an infant begins to view externa ...

Chapter 5 Klein: Object Relations Theory 151 Ordinarily, the infant tries to introject good objects, to take them inside itself ...

152 Part II Psychodynamic Theories behavior, they must then deal with destructive and terrifying impulses in the only way they c ...

Chapter 5 Klein: Object Relations Theory 153 to the good breast and the bad breast. For example, when the ego experiences the go ...

154 Part II Psychodynamic Theories Klein would describe a 5-year-old child’s superego in much the same way Freud did. By the 5th ...

Chapter 5 Klein: Object Relations Theory 155 body has been injured by her mother, an anxiety that can be alleviated only when sh ...

156 Part II Psychodynamic Theories Margaret Mahler’s View Margaret Schoenberger Mahler (1897–1985) was born in Sopron, Hungary, ...

Chapter 5 Klein: Object Relations Theory 157 sends cues to the mother of hunger, pain, pleasure, and so forth, and the mother re ...

158 Part II Psychodynamic Theories children will continue to depend on their mother’s physical presence for their own security. ...

Chapter 5 Klein: Object Relations Theory 159 (2) the need to acquire an idealized image of one or both parents. The grandiose- e ...