Positions and Psychic Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

The ways of dealing with both internal and external objects.

Answer 1

Positions

Question 2

A way of organizing experiences that include both paranoid feelings of being persecuted and a splitting of internal and external objects into the good and the bad.
(3 or 4 months of life)

Answer 2

paranoid-schizoid position

Question 3

Infants can only manage the good and bad aspects of themselves and of external
objects by doing this, that is, by keeping apart incompatible impulses.

Answer 3

splitting

Question 3

The feelings of anxiety over losing a loved object coupled with a sense of guilt for wanting
to destroy that object. (5th or 6th month)

Answer 3

depressive position

Question 3

psychic defense mechanism in which infants split off unacceptable parts of themselves, project them into another object, and finally introject them back into themselves in a changed or
distorted form.

Answer 3

projective identification