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Psychodynamics: Melanie Klein

Object relations theory examines relationships between people, especially within families. A core idea is that people are driven to form attachments to external objects to satisfy emotional needs. Sigmund Freud argued that mourning and melancholia are different responses to loss, where mourning involves conscious grieving for a specific loss, while melancholia involves unconscious grieving for a loss that is not fully comprehended. The document then provides an example of a person, E.B., who formed an early attachment to his abusive father but later distanced himself from his family due to feelings of guilt and self-hatred over his father's mistreatment of other family members.

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Psychodynamics: Melanie Klein

Object relations theory examines relationships between people, especially within families. A core idea is that people are driven to form attachments to external objects to satisfy emotional needs. Sigmund Freud argued that mourning and melancholia are different responses to loss, where mourning involves conscious grieving for a specific loss, while melancholia involves unconscious grieving for a loss that is not fully comprehended. The document then provides an example of a person, E.B., who formed an early attachment to his abusive father but later distanced himself from his family due to feelings of guilt and self-hatred over his father's mistreatment of other family members.

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Psychodynamics

Sigmund Freud: (Psychoanalytical theory) Mourning


Melanie Klein: Object Relations and Melancholia
Theory
Freud argues that mourning and melancholia are similar but
Object Relations Theory is a theory of different responses to loss. In mourning, a person deals with
relationships between people, in the grief of losing of a specific love object, and this process
particular within a family. A basic takes place in the conscious mind. In melancholia, a person
grieves for a loss he is unable to fully comprehend or
principle is that we are driven to form

E.B hates himself, for favoritism was established among his family. When he
was a child, he was very attached to his father; for his father always guided
him and treated him more lovingly than his older siblings. But afterwards (even
at the young age), E.B saw his father being intimate with other women and
physically abusing his older siblings and his mother, but not him.
Consequently, he began to hate his father and distanced himself from his
family for he blames himself or felt guilty that his father only hurts the other
family members, but not him. Therefore he started to get into drugs or listen
to music (E.g Eminem) to forget his problems.

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