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1The literature contains a widespread confusion in the use of the concepts "transitional objects," "infantile fetishes," and childhood and adult fetishism. I have attempted to clarify these concepts in terms of their essential phase specificity.
2Attachments to inanimate things in childhood and adulthood have a different metapsychology and serve different defensive functions. In the adult they usually function as defenses against separation and object loss.