KnowraObject relations theoryLinked fromLinked fromThe 18 pages that link to Object relations theory, each with the reason it gives.All 18Broader topic 1Related 9Narrower topic 1Compared with 7Oedipus complexCompared with: It shifts emphasis from instinctual wishes toward early relationships and their internal representations.Karen HorneyCompared with: It also shifts attention toward relationships, but developed as a distinct psychoanalytic tradition.SuperegoCompared with: It explains internalized figures and conflict differently from Freud’s account of the superego.Ego psychologyCompared with: It foregrounds internal relationships, whereas ego psychology emphasizes functions and adaptation.Penis envyCompared with: It shifts attention from anatomical difference toward relationships as drivers of development.Castration anxietyCompared with: Its developmental accounts emphasize early relationships rather than Freud’s genital-stage fear as the central mechanism.Heinz KohutCompared with: Kohut’s focus on self-cohesion differs from object relations accounts centered on internal object relationships.