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Development I: Birth to 5 Years
October 16, 2020 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Freud Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD
Kelly Lippman, LMHC
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October 16, 2020 — Representation, Introjection, Internalization and Identification I
[54 pages]
Young children develop the capacity to symbolize through introjection and internal representation of primary objects. Finding the self in the other requires the child to look for something. Young children discover the me and not me through their identifications with their parents and caregivers. This process requires a psychic movement out and a psychic movement in – much like breathing or the digestive process of taking food in, making use of what is good and then eliminating what is not.
This session will examine the concepts of representation, introjection, internalization and identification and the accretion of an internal object world.
Beebe, B. and Lachmann, F. (1994). Representation and Internalization in Infancy: Three Principles of Salience. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 11(2):127-165.
Anzieu-Premmereur, C. (2013). “The process of representation in early childhood” in Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning: Clinical and Theoretical Contributions, H. Levine, G. Reed and D. Scarfone (Eds.) pp240-254.
Optional Reading
Sandler, J. Rosenblatt, B. (1962). The Concept of the Representational World. Psychoanal. St. Child, 17:128-145.
Sandler, J. Sandler, A. (1978). On the Development of Object Relationships and Affects. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 59:285-296.
