Capacity to be alone, the Glossary
Capacity to be alone is a developmentally acquired ability, considered by object relations theory to be a key to creative living.[1]
Table of Contents
12 relations: André Green (psychoanalyst), Asociality, Blaise Pascal, Comfort object, Donald Winnicott, Existentialism, Good enough parent, Julia Kristeva, Negative capability, Object relations theory, Samuel Beckett, Theodor Reik.
- Object relations theory
André Green (psychoanalyst)
André Green (12 March 1927 – 22 January 2012) was a French psychoanalyst.
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Asociality refers to the lack of motivation to engage in social interaction, or a preference for solitary activities.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
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Comfort object
A comfort object, more formally a transitional object or attachment object, is an item used to provide psychological comfort, especially in unusual or unique situations, or at bedtime for children. Capacity to be alone and comfort object are Childhood and object relations theory.
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Donald Winnicott
Donald Woods Winnicott (7 April 1896 – 25 January 1971) was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology.
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Existentialism
Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.
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Good enough parent
Good enough parent is a concept deriving from the work of Donald Winnicott, in his efforts to provide support for what he called "the sound instincts of normal parents...stable and healthy families". Capacity to be alone and Good enough parent are Childhood and object relations theory.
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Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva (born Yuliya Stoyanova Krasteva, Юлия Стоянова Кръстева; on 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s.
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Negative capability
"Negative capability" is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty.
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Object relations theory
Object relations theory is a school of thought in psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalysis centered around theories of stages of ego development.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.
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Theodor Reik
Theodor Reik (12 May 1888 – 31 December 1969) was a psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students in Vienna, Austria, and was a pioneer of lay analysis in the United States.
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See also
Object relations theory
- Attachment theory
- Capacity to be alone
- Comfort object
- Depressive anxiety
- Good enough parent
- Identification (psychology)
- Internal working model of attachment
- Madonna–whore complex
- Object relations theory
- Parallel process
- Paranoid anxiety
- Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions
- Self psychology
- Self-envy
- Splitting (psychology)