ABSTRACT
People bear memories of being the mother's and father's object in ego structure, and in the course of a person's object relations he re-presents various positions in the historical theatre of lived experiences between elements of mother, father, and his infant-child self. In this chapter, the author finds the concept of the relation to the self as an object to be of considerable use to him in his clinical work with patients, and although this idea is present in psychoanalytic theory. Each person who possesses a capacity for intrasubjective relating is an object of his own self management, and the nature of how the self is handled as an object of one's own management is worthy of scrutiny. The psychoanalytic process is a unique therapeutic procedure because it enables the person to represent the transference to the self as object and to crystallize those features of being and relating which are countertransferential expressions.
