The Elusive Good Object with Lynne Zeavin at NYPSI
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NYPSI’s 1028th Scientific Program Meeting: The Elusive Good Object with presenter Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. and discussant Richard Zimmer, M.D.

The Elusive Good Object Presenter: Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. Discussant: Richard Zimmer, M.D.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 8 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)

There are two distinct ways in which Melanie Klein writes about idealization. Insofar as she maintains that “The whole of [the infant’s] instinctual desires and his unconscious phantasies imbue the breast with qualities going far beyond the actual nourishment it affords,” and her increasingly stressed conviction that the libidinally invested breast, when introjected, forms ‘the core of the ego’, Klein is suggesting that the original good object must be experienced as ideal. Nothing less than this would adequately address ‘the whole of [the infant’s] instinctual desires.’ In this view, the infant projects his entire loving capacity, as well as his capacity for pleasure, onto the object and this is then introjected, together with the object’s actual goodness, to become his very core. Continue reading The Elusive Good Object with Lynne Zeavin at NYPSI

Psychology Sunday: Karen Horney
By Categories: Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  Karen Horney on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:   A Description of Karen Horney’s Neo-Freudian Theory of Personality by Camille Harris on the Owlocation website on December 22, 2016.

Click Here to Read:  Karen Horney on the Psychology’s Feminist Voices website.

Click Here to Read: Karen Horney’s Influence on Psychology by Makayla Heisler on her blog on June 8, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Chapter 5: Section 5: Karen Horney’s Feminine Psychology By Dr. Christopher L. Heffner on the All Psych website. Continue reading Psychology Sunday: Karen Horney