Ronald Fairbairn
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El concepto de relación de objeto ha sido un potente concepto para el trabajo clínico y para la escuela de las relaciones objetales dentro del psicoanálisis desde 1930. En 1970 surge el concepto de vínculo que tiene como antecedente la... more
Explores Maureen Folan, in Martin McDonagh's "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," as a psychological borderline, someone who is afraid to achieve a man she can have a relationship with, and so defaults to using him as simply another object she... more
Invisible Man, the invisible man repeatedly draws our attention to how he captures the attention of discerning individuals. Supposedly, this is not the sort of attention he craves. What he really wants, he tells us, is for others to take... more
Explores the ability of the narrator to be honest with the difficulties -- not displace, repress, elide/evade concerns -- they had in their mother-child relationship, in several works of literature, including Cocteau's "Les Enfants... more
Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film Wild Strawberries is a resolved study in unresolved psychic pain. Bergman’s own deep feeling of having been an unwanted baby is an underlying driver of the film, a common root of the suffering of protagonist... more
This article is a fictional account of supervision with late Scottish psychoanalyst, W.R.D. Fairbairn. It systematically reviews each of his major theoretical works and seeks to apply his object-relations theory of the personality to an... more