title: Some observations on transitional object and infantile fetish.
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.
mesh_terms: D001009:Anxiety, Castration; D001010:Anxiety, Separation; D001143:Arousal; D001828:Body Image; D005329:Fetishism, Psychiatric / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008418:Masturbation; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D014039:Toilet Training; D014554:Urination; D014796:Visual Perception