ABSTRACT
The aggressive impulses had some of the qualities of the sexual drives: a similar urgency or intensity, their being directed at objects, their producing conflicts, and being defended against. In the case of traumatic frustrations, the result is massive introjections of intensely frustrating experiences with objects. Many small object losses produce correspondingly small introjections, which exert their effects through neutralized energy. The concept of "childhood object" has given rise to much confusion. Underlying a neurotic object choice is always a libidinal object of childhood. Such a structure occurs in that part of the psychic apparatus which is separated by a barrier of repression and defensive mechanisms. Freud described the superego as an integral part of the ego, having to do with wholesale introjections of frustrating experiences with objects. The original narcissism was associated with the phantasied omnipotence of the child's wishes. In the later phase, the drive-prohibiting parents are seen as omnipotent.
