Odd Object

A odd object indicates a perception deformed by one felt of oneself which is associated with an external element, by thus making a object.

It is a concept of psychoanalysis introduced by Wilfred Bion on the basis of work of Melanie Klein which one can bind has a Projective identification pathological.

Explanation

A person drives back a feeling, which is clean for him and the fact of carrying unconsciously to an object of its entourage. This object can be a simple object, but also a person, a group, an animal, etc the object which is then perceived is not more representative of reality, but of a mixture between reality and what was projected in the object. It is then qualified by odd Bion of object.

For example, Freud describes the Petit Hans which was maintained in a context of repression of the sex and with which it offered a rocking horse. The child was afraid of the great sex (named " to make-pipi") horse and did not want any more to leave at his place of fear of being bitten by a horse. The horse can certainly for this child being described as odd object (although the example is anachronistic compared to the concept).

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