Fairbairn clarified and extended the existential dimension of psychoanalytic theory. His object relations psychology is a “loyal opposition” to classical drive psychology which provided a middle ground between the Anna Freud and Melanie Klein wings of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Object relations were to Fairbairn dynamic intrapsychic structures that represent failed actual interpersonal relations with the needed parent. This revision of psychoanalytic developmental theory asserted