ABSTRACT
The intersubjective, interpersonal, self psychological, and relational analyst would be more prone to emphasize how the infant's personality had been co-constructed by his environment and that he is repeating that co-construction in the transference. In one of his "Kleinian" papers Winnicott (1971) spoke about the "subjective object" and of "primary creativity". He defines the former: "I am trying to distinguish between this fusion [referring to his antecedent citation of Milner's concept of 'pre-logical fusion' [of subject and object] and the fusion and defusion of the subjective object and the object objectively perceived". A hidden order of Kleinian theory and technique is the notion that the infant's sense of self is an obligatory function of its relationship to the object: the infant first projectively identifies aspects of itself into the external object and then introjectively identifies the thus formed chimerical object.
