in religion in the communal aspects of religion such as worship.
supports the self's nuclear program of ambitions and ideals, and
Self-Object - ANSWER- Kohuts idea: A person (or place or thing) experienced as part of
the self and used to foster esteem and a sense of well-being.
relational psychoanalysis - ANSWER- Jone uses this idea that the psychic structure is
formed in relationship with people and things, both real and imagined.
RE348 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025.
Projective Identification - ANSWER- Kleins idea that when we defensively disown a part
of us that we refuse to be a part of us, we project it into someone else
Primary Motivation According to Fairbairn - ANSWER- Connection with others
Optimal Frustration - ANSWER- Kohuts idea that eventually the important people in the
life of the child will fail to meet the child's needs perfectly. If these disappointments
happen gradually, this frustration will lead to transmuting internalization.
Object Hunger - ANSWER- Kohut's Idea: This is the state we are in if the process of
frustration, or being let down by care givers, does not happen optimally, that is gradually
enough for us to internalize the idealized parent. We remain throughout our life
dependent on and hungry for external objects to serve the function of our missing self
structures.
Nuclear Program - ANSWER- Our ideals and ambitions. With optimal frustration, the
child's idealized image of the parent is internalized as ideals and the grandiose image of
the self is internalized as ambitions.
Moral Defense - ANSWER- We resolve the dilemma of seeing out caregivers as "bad"
by us ourselves becoming all bad thereby making them all good!
Mirroring - ANSWER- The need for recognition and acceptance.
Kohut's View of Narcissism - ANSWER- Therapy cures by the therapeutic relationship
itself that provides the patient with the selfobject experiences necessary to repair old
and grow new psychic structures
Kohuts Idea - ANSWER- He felt we never outgrow our narcissism and idealization, and
we never lose our need for self objects.
Kohut's 3 fundamental needs - ANSWER- Idealization, mirroring, and twinship
Klein's View on Badness - ANSWER- Badness is perceived as being inside and is
connected to the endogenously arising aggressive drive
Jones View - ANSWER- In order for something to be sacred it must be idealized
Intrapsychic and Interpersonal - ANSWER- Building blocks of a persons identity
according to Klein and Fairbairn
Immature Religion - ANSWER- Exploits the narcissistic needs and object hungers of its
devotees, encourages addictive dependence,
Idealization is Close to being In love - ANSWER- Jones says this
Idealization - ANSWER- The need to be connected to a greater reality.
Healthy and Mature Religion - ANSWER- Contributes to building and sustaining self
structures,