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One of the results of splitting of the psychic representations of objects
into their pleasurable, exciting, good, supportive, nurturing, and needs-meeting
aspects (i.e., the good object), and their unpleasurable, frustrating,
undesirable, painful, deprecatory, damaged, critical, hostile, incomplete, and
disavowed aspects (i.e., the bad object). Splitting is a normal ego mechanism
during infant development; in the adult it is a manifestation of an inability to
integrate positive and negative qualities of the object (or self) into a
cohesive image.
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