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Faber asserts that protagonists in Western plays and novels characteristically experience a reactivation of the bad mother introject. The splitting of the maternal object representation into good and bad is evoked by and is proportional to the mother's ambivalence toward the child. Faber, with some success, seeks to apply these formulations to Othello.