Describe the ways in which the object-relations school departs from Freudian theory in regard to the nature of male and female development
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
• In the object-relations view, children of both sexes identify first with the mother.
• Girls, who are the same sex as the mother, do not need to separate from her; the mother treats a daughter as an extension of herself.
• Boys must break away from the mother in order to develop a masculine identity; the mother encourages a son to be independent and separate.
• Thus men, in this view, develop more rigid boundaries between themselves and other people than women do.
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