The concept of ‘object’ whether internal or external, is a hold-over from the Enlightenment and from the positivistic certainty of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century science. Its use in current psychoanalytic theory and practice is now obsolete because of the contributions of post-modernism and their emphasis on subjectivity and relativity. In place of the word ‘object’, the author favors a return to pre-Enlightenment psychology in order to address the presence and clinical manifestation of what the term ‘object’ screened, i.e., demons, monsters, chimerae, ghosts, spirits, etc. In terms of external ‘objects’, he favors such terms as ‘persons’ or ‘subjects’, which also reflects an adjustment to the post-modern emphasis on the ineffability of the Other.