good object

good ob·ject

in psychoanalysis, the good or supporting aspects of an important person in the patient's life, especially of a parent or parent-surrogate.

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If there be an object to HURRY any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take DELIBERATELY, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.

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I am not impertinently curious, but have a good object.

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More than that, we become casuists, we learn to be Jesuitical and for a time maybe we can soothe ourselves, we can persuade ourselves that it is one's duty for a good object.

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Casaubon made no objection beyond a passing remark that the sum might be disproportionate in relation to other good objects, but when Dorothea in her ignorance resisted that suggestion, he acquiesced.

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Every possible good object will then have a similar comprehensive conjunctive natural property.

Non-naturalism and reference

So, discoveries are still being made around Merseyside and the prize for finding a good object can be a huge pay-off which will buy a new car or even pay off the mortgage

UNDER THE HAMMER

t Aitor The oppos pundits and man ally a good object display - they are up in the hothous of Planet Boro - a was a fair result.

Karanka's Boro will be e all white on the night; The Bigger Picture e with Anthony Vickers

If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.

Time Is Nothingness

Each case exemplifies a clinical process or concept Waska wants to communicate: psychic distortions of the good object, entitlement and demands, taming destructive phantasies, pre-interpretive containment and more.

Klein in the trenches; working with disturbed patients

At the December meeting, Dawson expressed his support for a public park for 'it was a good object, a most desirable one, a most necessary one'.

Key city figures led fight for free parks

In the 1980s, Albert Oehlen began exploiting hackneyed figuration to exquisitely perverse effect, thereby rendering "bad painting" an unassailable good object.

Albert Oehlen

Seminal phantasies are deeply ambivalent, but include reparative urges to restore the good object.

The financial crisis: a psychoanalytic view of illusion, greed and reparation in masculine phantasy