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Fairbairn & Guntrip: Origins of Object-Relations

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

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The Inflamed Libidinal Need and the Rejecting Ego

i suggested that we have an ideal object in a central ego on the side of good. On the side of bad, we have an exciting object that stimulates the labidnal ego. And we have a rejecting object that stimulates hate and anger. So as this comes into the analysis, the analyst comes to be seen as exciting and rejecting. But i felt the need to bring melony cline back into the picture. Because there are three phaces of the bad object: not just exciting, but outright persecuting, a persecutory object.

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