title: Primitive object relations and mechanisms.
abstract: In the first part of this paper I have concentrated on Melanie Klein's description of early infantile positive and negative object relations, which, in her view, start from birth onwards. I have also described the defences which arise in early infancy, which Melanie Klein stressed particularly in her papers in 1935 and 1946. I have discussed in greater detail those processes which Melanie Klein and others, including myself, have described under the term projective identification.
mesh_terms: D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011385:Projection; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D002666:Psychology, Child