Abstract
This chapter discusses the different object relations theories in psychoanalysis. It presents different definitions of object relation theory and examines the controversies surrounding this topic. The rest of the chapter takes a look at the representative object relations theories, as stated by Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Donald Winnicott, Harry Stack Sullivan, Edith Jacobson, Margaret Mahler, and Otto Kernberg.
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