I wish I had some clever anecdote to share, but I have nothing.
I've been consumed with my first research paper - D.W. Winnicott's contributions to object relations theory and how this compares to the interpersonal psychological tradition.
Problem is I don't understand object relations.
It's like writing about Freud's id and ego - you may be able to read about it and potentially understand it, but the level of comprehension needed to compose a graduate level research paper is another obstacle altogether.
However, if anyone would like to engage in a casual conversation about the facilitating environment created out of the primary maternal preoccupation for the explicit purpose of establishing an illusory hallucination of omnipotent control in the pre-oedipal infant, then I'm game!
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I understand the omnipotent or (all powerful) such as what we believe God is.
I understand the illusory (or deceptive) hallucination, but other than that, you lost me.
Love.
Let me just say that the key insight contained in object relations theory is that the human subject is largely the interaction that it, as a developing person, has with its caretakers and since those caretakers are themselves socially determined persons,they will pass on to the child their own personal tendencies and social experiences.
What don't you understand?
:) Mom
Your Grandpa/Daddy would say it is in the genes.
Hooray for the genetic factor.
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