title: Character, character type, and character organization.
abstract: This paper explores the relevance of the concept of character organization for psychoanalysis and argues for its usefulness in preserving what is specific to character. Character organization is viewed as a bridge concept between the observable and the structural, the role of fantasy and object relations in development, and as a convenient way of describing certain global phenomena not easily encompassed by the structural theory or compromise formation.
authors.affiliation: New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Baudry
mesh_terms: D002605:Character; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004532:Ego; D005201:Fantasy; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory