Some Observations on Transitional Object and Infantile Fetish
- 1 April 1975
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
- Vol. 44 (2) , 206-231
- https://doi.org/10.1080/21674086.1975.11926709
Abstract
Observations of a girl's development are presented to demonstrate the role of the transitional object in coping with the normal strains implicit in the separation-individuation thrust and in the anal-urinary and early sexual stages of development. When at eighteen months a separation experience led to a serious preoedipal castration reaction, the transitional object no longer was capable of serving its ordinary function and was replaced by a fetishistic object.Keywords
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- The Fetish and the Transitional ObjectThe Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 1969