ABSTRACT
Karl Abraham redefined the status of the object in his new structural theory regarding the first relationships formed between infants and objects; although in his papers the object still maintained its elementary condition as a place in which drives discharge. Object relations theory is becoming an increasingly significant aspect of psychoanalysis and continues to evolve. In many ways, Abraham was the true pioneer of the concept of object in psychoanalysis due to his division of the libidinal organisation into stages in accordance with the evolution of object-love. He conducted his psychoanalytical study of psychosis based on an in-depth and detailed examination of the phases of libidinal development. There are several conceptions of object; Freud's initial approach to this concept coincides on the whole with Kantian view. In his seminar of 30 September 1975, Lacan pointed out that object relations continuously refer to a lost object, whereby the gratifying object is the re-found object of desire, which, however, is never found.
