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In the years following [[Freud]]'s [[death]], the twin concepts of the "[[object]]" and the "object relation" attained a growing imporance importance in [[psychoanalytic theory]], and eventually a whole [[school]] of [[psychoanalytic theory]] came to be known as "[[object-relations theory]].

=====Object-Relations Theory=====(The main proponents of [[object-relations theory ]] were Ronald Faibairn, D.W. Winnicott and Michael Balint, all of whom were members of the Middle Group of the British Psycho-Analytical Society.) These analysts differed on many points, and hence [[object-relations theory]] covers a wide range of theoretical points of view.  ---

---=====Lacanian Psychoanalysis==========Intersubjectivity=====Although [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]] has been compared with [[object-relations theory]] in that both [[school|schools]] of thought ] place more emphasis on [[intersubjectivity]], [[Lacan]] himself criticizes [[object-relations theory]] repeatedly.

[[Lacan]] is opposed to such a view, arguing that for [[human]] [[being]]s there is no such thing as a "pre-established harmony" betrween "a need and an object that satisfies it."<ref>{{S1}} p.209</ref>

The root of the error is, argues [[Lacan]], that in [[object-relations theory]], "the object is first and foremost an object of satisfaction."<ref>{{S1}} p.209</ref>

=====Symbolic Desire=====In other words, by locating the [[object]] in the [[register]] of [[satisfaction]] and [[need]], [[object-relations theory]] confuses the [[object ]] of [[psychoanalysis]] with the [[object]] of [[biology]] and neglects the [[symbolic]] dimension of [[desire]].

One dire consequence that follows from this is that the specific difficulties which arise from the [[symbolic]] constitution of [[desire]] are neglected, with the result that '"mature object relations' " and ideals of '"[[genital|genital love]]' " are proposed as the goal of [[treatment]].

Thus [[object-relations theory]] becomes the site of a "delirious moralism."<ref>{{Ec}} p.716</ref>

=====Mother-Child Relation=====A closely related aspect of [[object-relations theory]] which [[Lacan]] also criticizes is its shift of emphasis from the [[Oedipal]] [[structure|triangle]] onto the [[mother]]-[[child]] [[dual relation|relation]], with the latter conceived of as a perfectly symmetrical, reciprocal relation.

A closely related aspect =====Oedipal Triangle=====One of [[object-relations theory]] which [[Lacan]] also criticizes 's fundamental concern is its shift to restore the centrality of emphasis from the [[Oedipal]] [[structure|triangle onto ]] to [[psychoanalysis]] by re-emphasizing the importance of the [[motherfather]]in contrast to the [[object-relations]] emphasis on the [[childmother]] relation, with the latter conceived of as a perfectly symmetrical, reciprocal relation.

One of This concern can be seen in [[Lacan]]'s fundamental concern is to restore the centrality criticism of the [[Oedipal]] triangle to [[psychoanalysisobject-relations theory|object relation]] by re-emphasizing the importance of the as a symmetrical [[fatherdual relation]] in contrast to , and his view that the [[object-relationstheory|object relation]] emphasis on the is an [[motherintersubjective]]relation which involves not two but three terms.

This concern can be seen in ====Seminar of 1953-54=====[[Lacan]]'s criticism of the object relation as a symmetrical British [[dual relationobject-relations theory]], and is one of the main themes of the first year of his view that the object relation is an public [[intersubjectiveseminar]] relation which involves not two but three terms(1953-4).

In the fourth year of the [[seminar]], entitled "[[Object Relations]]," [[Lacan]] discusses not the British school of [[object---relations theory]] but the French school.

=====See Also====={{See}}* [[LacanBiology]]'s cricism of British * [[objectDesire]]* [[Drive]]||* [[Dual relation]]* [[Ego-relations theorypsychology]] is one of the main themes of the first year of his public * [[seminarFather]] (1953-4).||* [[Intersubjectivity]]* [[Kleinian psychoanalysis]]* [[Mother]]||* [[Oedipus complex]]* [[Psychoanalysis]]* [[School]]||* [[Structure]]* [[Subject]]* [[Symbolic]]{{Also}}