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MANY AUTHORS—Jacobson (1964), Mahler and Furer (1968), Mahler et al. (1975), Spitz (1957), (1965)—as well as the members of today's panel (Gedo and Goldberg, 1973); (Kanzer, 1957); (Lichtenberg, 1975); (Meissner, 1971); (Spruiell, 1974) have pointed out that incorporation, imitation and identification, and introjection play a significant role in the development of object relations.
In this paper I intend first to examine a few aspects of the subphase-specific development of internalization in terms of its role in beginning the establishment of object relations. This development is inferred from the behavior of children