OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY

About the Book

Object Relations, in psychoanalysis are those in which the emotional relations between subject and object, in that which through a process of identification, is believed to constitute the developing ego. In this context, the word object refers to any person or thing, or representational aspect of them, with which the subject forms an intense emotional relationship. Object relations were first described by German psychoanalyst Karl Abraham in an influential paper, published in 1924. In the paper he developed the ideas of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, on infantile sexuality and the development of the libido. Object relations theory has become one of the central themes of post Freudian psychoanalysis, particularly through the writings of British psychoanalysts Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, and Donald Winnicott, all deeply influenced by Abraham. They have each developed distinctly, though complementary, approaches to analysis, evolving theories of personal development based on early parental attachments.

About the Author

Richard John Kosciejew, German-born Canadian who takes residence in the city of Toronto, Canada, his father was a butcher and holding of five children. Richard, the second born, received his public school training within the playground of Alexander Muir Public School, then moving into the secondary level of Ontario’s educational system for being taught at Central Technical School. Finding that his thirst, of an increasing vexation for what is Truth and Knowledge were to be quenched in the relief of mind, body and soul. As gathering opportunities, he attended Centennial College, also the University of Toronto, and keeping at this pace, he attended the University of Western Ontario, situated in London, Ontario Canada. He had drawn heavy interests, besides Philosophy and Physics that his academic studies, however, in the Analyses were somewhat overpowering, none the less, during the criterion of analytical studies, and taking time to attend of the requiring academia, he completed his book "The Designing Theory of Transference." He is now living in Toronto and finds that the afforded efforts in his attemptive engagements are only to be achieved for what is obtainable in the secret reservoir of continuative phenomenons, for which we are to discover or rediscover in their essencity.