Object-relationship

The object-relationship is, in psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the objects which constitute the world in which he lives.

At Freud

Sigmund Freud did not employ the term of expression but object-relationship, rather such as investment of object. It was based little on the concept of subject but rather on that of psychic apparatus, by association with the central Nervous system.

Nevertheless, one finds well, once, the use of object-relationship under the feather of Freud; this occurrence speaks whereas Freud approaches the particular mourning of the melancholic person, therefore on a heavy pathology, which is undoubtedly not a chance.

Outline

The object-relationship is the mode of relation of the subject with its world (Jean Laplanche and Pontalis, Vocabulaire of the psychoanalysis).

The principal idea is that several relations can cohabit, several relational methods. Moreover, the expression its world clearly shows the point of view of a relation to an internal object.

The idea of mode of relation returns to a very vast assembly: the concept of object-relationship proves to be based on almost the whole of the metapsychology, since it is consequence many movement psychic. The object-relationship, or rather the methods relational, is consequences of the organization of the whole of the personality.

Karl Abraham

Karl Abraham employs the expression of very close expression or object-relationship, other, but without formulating a particular theory. It is simply a question for him of describing the evolution of infantile sexuality, and the stages which are dependant for him.

Theory of the object-relationship

The theories of the object-relationship are not unified. One can distinguish those which aim at an internal object, for example at Melanie Klein, and those which admit an external object. This point will bring the concept of object-relationship to being criticized in what the relation would be observable there such as it is.

Maurice Grooving plane

Grooving plane, apart from the fact that it be a large contradictor of the theories of Jacques Lacan, theorized the question of the object-relationships according to the organizations of personality in an innovative way. It also analyzed of them the implications on the level of the Transfert.

Characteristics

The object-relationship lends itself to the consideration of three characteristics:

subject-object Interactivity; it is a question well of describing an interrelationship.
Distance: the theoretical point which distinguishes instinctual object from the real object.
Plasticity: the relations evolve/move with the wire of time.

These characteristics are however not valid for all the theories of the object-relationship.

References

Theory of the object-relationship

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