Object Love and Reality: An Introduction to a Psychoanalytic Theory of Object Relations.

1969 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 374
Author(s):  
Stanford R. Gamm
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory

Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay R. Greenberg ◽  
Stephen A. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory

Anmerkungen zur Theorie des Selbst innerhalb der Psychoanalyse

1985 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Weidenhammer
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Human Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dependency Relations ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Representational World

AbstractThe concept of self is imbedded in the psychoanalytic theory of object relations. The theory of object relations poses the question of the constitution of the person’s inner life or ‘representational world’. It will be discussed, in what respect the concept of self serves the description of dependency relations, in which the psychic relations of the person to the social and cultural reality are expressed. The significance of the concept of self lies in the explicative role it takes in the portrayal of the individual’s developing participation in human community.

Mothering Molloy, or Beckett and Cutlery

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Seán Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Irish Literature ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Wilfred Bion ◽  
British School ◽  
Donald Winnicott

This essay reads Beckett's relationship to psychoanalysis as a central concern of Molloy, arguing that Molloy's quest for mother traces Beckett's re-evaluation of the British school of object-relations theory of Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. Tracing fine furniture, in Irish literature of the 1920s and 1930s, as an objective correlative of Anglo-Irish distinction, and linking that tradition to a Winnicottian reading of Molloy's impulsive theft of silverware, I argue that Molloy parodies the language of object-relations in order to situate Beckett newly in relation to it. In other words, Beckett intimates that Molloy's unhealthy obsession with mother is mirrored in psychoanalytic theory itself. In this way, writing Molloy allows him to re-evaluate psychoanalysis in its obsession with ‘mother’ as the founding site of psychic health and wellness.

Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory

1985 ◽  
Vol 142 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-257
Author(s):  
JEROME A. WINER
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory

scholarly journals Towards an object-relations theory of consumerism: The aesthetics of desire and the unfolding materiality of social life

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
Cultural Implications

This paper addresses some fundamental questions in the field of consumption studies through an exploration of literatures within object-relations psychoanalytic theory. It takes materiality as its central concern, dealing especially with questions of actor–commodity relations. In particular the paper uses the conceptual apparatus of the object-relations approach to propose a new way for theorizing aspects of consumption practice relating to person–object relationships. After situating the discussion within contemporary debates in consumption studies, the paper uses DW Winnicott's work as a point from which to integrate broader literatures on aesthetic experience and subject–object relations. The paper draws out the cultural implications and affinities of Winnicott's model and argues that his approach usefully suggests pathways for developing a model of consumption which neither reduces person–object exchanges to the psyche, assemblages of practices, or to the dead hand of social-structural forces. Rather, it is argued that Winnicott's model is suggestive of the more widespread and powerful cultural implications arising from relations between actors and objects of consumption.

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