These experiences either gratify or frustrate the very existence of the infant’s ego. Also, the infant’s innate destructive self urges to create fantasies of biting, tearing, annihilating the breast. The infants mixed good and bad feelings toward the same object splits the ego, retaining parts of its life and death instincts into the breasts. The infant fears the persecutory instinct rather than fearing its own death instinct. But the infant also has a good relation with the breast which provides gratification and love, so the infant keeps good breast inside for projection. Klein developed this position in way to organize experiences which include both paranoid feelings and a splitting of internal and external objects of good and bad
These experiences either gratify or frustrate the very existence of the infant’s ego. Also, the infant’s innate destructive self urges to create fantasies of biting, tearing, annihilating the breast. The infants mixed good and bad feelings toward the same object splits the ego, retaining parts of its life and death instincts into the breasts. The infant fears the persecutory instinct rather than fearing its own death instinct. But the infant also has a good relation with the breast which provides gratification and love, so the infant keeps good breast inside for projection. Klein developed this position in way to organize experiences which include both paranoid feelings and a splitting of internal and external objects of good and bad