Internal Object

From the Melanie Klein Trust website:

The term ‘internal object’ means a mental and emotional image of an external object that has been taken inside the self. The character of the internal object is coloured by aspects of the self that have been projected into it. A complex interaction continues throughout life between the world of internalised figures and objects and in the real world (which are obviously also in the mind) via repeated cycles of projection and introjection.

Backlinks

The following pages link to this page:

• Bion and Thoughts Too Deep For Words
• Depressive Position
• Paranoid Schizoid Position
• Projective Identification