object relations theory

...Apart from constitutional factors (Freud believed that some people were born with strong oral or anal preferences), passing through these stages without experiencing excessive frustration or satisfaction is considered a condition for healthy personality development. The phallic stage (phase) is the time when Freud emphasized the formation of the Oedipus complex (3-6 years old). The proposal of the Oedipus complex, which states that a psychological conflict involving love and hate is constantly present in the parent-child three-way relationship, can be said to show the beginnings of the interpersonal theory and object relations theory, which are popular today, along with the theory of superego formation. The latency period that occurs after the age of 5 places a pause between the manifestation of infantile sexual desire and the manifestation of genital sexual desire (biphasic sexual development). ...

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…体質的要因(フロイトは，先天的に口唇愛，肛門愛の強い者の存在を考えていた)を別とすれば，これらの各期を過度の欲求不満も過度の欲求満足も経験することなく通過することが人格の健康な発達の条件とみられる。　ところで男根期phallic stage(phase)は，フロイトが強調したエディプス･コンプレクスを形成する時期(3～6歳)だが，親子の三者関係の中に愛憎を伴う心的抗争が恒常的にみられるというエディプス･コンプレクスの提唱は，超自我形成論と並んで，今日隆盛な対人関係論，対象関係論object relations theoryの萌芽を示したものといえる。5歳以降に生じる潜伏期latency periodによって幼児性欲の発現と性器性欲の発現との間に休止期が置かれる(性愛発達の二相性)。…

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