RLG100Y1 Study Guide - Cognitive Therapy, Existentialism, Eastern Philosophy
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As child feeds & breast provides suf cient milk, child feels loved [= good breast] When child does not receive suf cient milk, he is frustrated & the breast is hated [= bad breast] = mother receives love or destructive attack based on good object/bad obj perception. Part objects to while objects: the breast is a part object and the child"s frustration or love towards the breast extends to the whole object, which is the mother. Upon learning that ppl and objs can be good and bad at the same time, the child progresses to the depressive position (from the previous. Occurs when infant discovers bad breast and good breast are the same = mother is recognized as whole object rather than 2 part objects. Infant recognizes that the aggressive impulses may have hurt or destroyed mother, thus becomes anxious = results in depressive anxiety replacing destructive urges with guilt.
