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In Melanie Klein's Object Relations Theory, the infant's early psychological development during the first year of life is conceptualized through two distinct structural positions: the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position. The transition into the depressive position is characterized essentially by:

the infant's recognition of the mother as a whole object (objeto total), leading to ambivalence, depressive anxiety regarding the harm done to the loved object, and the drive for reparation. the exclusive use of splitting (cisão) and projective identification to completely isolate the 'good breast' from the 'bad persecutory breast'. the total dissolution of the unconscious fantasy world and the emergence of objective formal operational logic. the onset of language acquisition as a purely social symbolic tool detached from internal bodily drives.

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the infant's recognition of the mother as a whole object (objeto total), leading to ambivalence, depressive anxiety regarding the harm done to the loved object, and the drive for reparation.

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