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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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