Psychic Life of the Infant

inherited predisposition

what infants begin life with

inherited predisposition

reduce the anxiety they experience as a result of the conflict produced by the forces of the LIFE INSTINCT and the power of the DEATH INSTINCT

phylogenetic endowment

infant's innate readiness to act or react presupposes the existence

phantasies

infants dont think in words

phantasies

infants experience good/bad based on their needs

fantasies

F/PH-ANTASIES:

day dream and aren't real

fantasies

F/PH-ANTASIES:

conscious

phantasies

F/PH-ANTASIES:

unconscious

phantasies

F/PH-ANTASIES:

has reality in it

phantasies

psychic representations of unconscious id instincts

phantasies

shaped by both reality and by inherited predispositions

phantasies

can be contradictory bc its unconscious

objects

these are what satisfies baby's needs

objects

what drives need

hunger & sex drive

drives < (2&)

hunger drive

DRIVE:

has the GOOD BREAST as its object,

sex drive

DRIVE:

has a SEXUAL ORGAN as its object

introject

act of taking external objects into their psychic structure

introjected objects

fantasies of internalizing the object in concrete and physical terms