title: Commentary on Zachrisson.
abstract: This piece is a discussion of Anders Zachrisson's paper " The Internal/External Issue: What Is an Outer Object? Another Person as Object and as Separate Other in Object Relations Models." In this paper, Zachrisson referenced three questions that I had posed in a previous paper. Here, I clarify and elaborate on the terms internal object, actual person and illusion. Zachrisson's and Winnicott's depictions of the capacity to be alone are compared and contrasted.
authors.affiliation: Finnish Psychoanalytical Society.
authors.forename: Olavi
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hämäläinen
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D014167:Transference, Psychology