A Contemporary View of Fairbairn and His Object Relations Theory

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Author(s):  
Robert C. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Contemporary View

An object-relations theory of the personality.

1955 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
Dan L. Adler
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Object Relations Theory

Fairbairnian approaches to King Roger , the opera by Karol Szymanowski

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-86
Author(s):  
Graham S. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Personal Relations ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

In what follows I will develop an account of Fairbairn's object relations theory as I have understood and developed it, and, apply that theory to an understanding of the threeact opera King Roger, Op. 26 (1926) by Karol Szymanowski. My Fairbairnian approaches to the opera come from my previous work on Fairbairn's object relations theory. In order to fully understand the first of the approaches I employ you may need to read my book Personal Relations Theory (Clarke, 2006), in particular chapters one, five, and six. In order to fully understand the second of the approaches I am using you need to read Thinking Through Fairbairn (Clarke, 2018a), in particular chapters two, three, and four, as well as my paper in the journal Attachment (Clarke, 2018b) on MPD/DID and Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms.

An Ego-Psychological Approach to the Rorschach

1995 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 911-930
Author(s):  
George Frank
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Object Representations ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Contemporary View ◽  
Present Purpose ◽  
Ego Psychology

This presentation is an extension and amplification of the ego-psychological assessment of Rorschach data initiated in 1946 by Rapaport, Gill, and Schafer whose focus was on the quality of the perception of reality and the assessment of defence. A more contemporary view of ego psychology not only includes an expanded view of defence but also of the nature of self- and object representations and the nature of object relations. An assessment of the synthesizing function of the ego was also discussed. The present purpose was to present a comprehensive assessment of Rorschach data from the point of view of contemporary ego psychology.

Object Relations Theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 1630-1632
Author(s):  
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Object Relations Theory

Christian anti-Judaism and early object relations theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marsha Aileen Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Freudian Theory

The central ideas of early object relations theory are heavily inflected with Christian anti-Judaism, particularly as found in the work of Ian Dishart Suttie, now credited as the founder of this tradition. The critique of Freud launched by Suttie repudiates Freudian theory as a “disease” inextricably connected to Freud being a Jew. Suttie’s portrayal of Judaism both conforms to and replicates those theological commitments that privilege a triumphalist, supersessionist Christianity that breaks with Judaism, understood as devoid of love, ethics, and social justice interests. The paper argues that the elements organizing the central concepts that structure Suttie’s Christian prejudice constitute distorting ideological interests that circulate and shape important strands of contemporary object relations theory. Central to the authors discussed is a repudiation of Freud’s theory of unconscious drives on the basis of privileging love and intersubjectivity as the motivators of human psychological development made possible by Jesus and Christianity. The paper demonstrates that contemporary object relations theory remains heavily indebted to Suttie while remaining oblivious to his explicit anti-Judaism.

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