ABSTRACT
Kleinians believe that the subjective aspect of the mind is dominated from birth by relationships with objects, both internal and external, as well as by part-objects and whole objects. One of the greatest differences between the Kleinian and other analytic schools would be that Kleinians generally assume that the infant has created the object in unconscious phantasy through projective identification, whereas the other schools would generally assume that the actual object was primary and that the infant or child phantasied about them, secondarily. Klein, unlike Freud, who conceived of phantasies as primarily discharging, conceived of them as object-dedicated from the start, but, like Freud, she believed that they constituted the mental representations of the instinctual drives and consequently were the prime movers of psychic life.
