ABSTRACT
The dynamic unconscious is the creation of repressions and other defensive processes mobilized by anxiety against instinctual demands and their impulse, affect, and ideational memory and phantasy derivatives. This chapter is an exploration of the impact on our understanding of unconscious processes of what has come to be known as relational psychoanalysis. H. Kohut also gave exclusive priority to object relations in his claim that the Oedipus complex derives from inadequate parenting. Psychoanalysts who have taken the "relational turn convey the impression that they are the advocates of a new idea and that classical analysis does not acknowledge object relations". Klein's theory has sometimes been thought to have granted more to object relations than did Freud's because of its elaboration of internal object relations. There is a fundamental respect in which the account given thus far altogether misses the point of the idea of object relations in contemporary psychoanalytic subjectivism.
