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Essay on Object Relations Theory
The most salient feature, in fact the heart and soul, of the object relations theory of personality development lies within its study of the nature of the human organism as developmentally unfolding within the environmental context of other human beings. Object relations theory lends itself uniquely to the study of man in a necessarily humanistic and experiential framework. As Sugarman (1977) explains:
If there is one basic premise upon which the object - relations model is based, it is that the appropriate level of inquiry and explanation for psychoanalytic theory is the personal one. The understanding of the human organism, and consequently of personality, must be in human terms. (Sugarman A., 1977)
Object relations theory is predicated on the assumption that it is within the matrix of human relationships from which the individual unfolds biologically and psychologically; it is therefore the human person who in essence becomes the object of the subject's interactional life. We thereby conceptualize, in Guntrip's (1969) words, "the study of man as a person whose be-all and end-all of existence is his relational life with other persons. For this, only object - relations terminology is adequate" (Guntrip H., 1961).
The complexities and intricacies involved in the psychoanalytic explanation of individuals and the social world with which they interface transpire within a disciplinary inquiry of a truly individualistic yet human relational nature. Fairbairn (1955) points out that "as in the case of all forms of psychological research, the investigations of psychoanalysis should be conducted at the level of personality and personal relations" (Fairbairn W. R. D., 1954).
The most original and significant object, that is, the person of the mothering object, inherently serves as the target of the infant's striving for need gratification, support, and confirmation. Winnicott (1965) highlighted The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment in his conceptualization of this realm of mother-infant relationship..................
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