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Mentioned in Fairbairn's endopsychic structural theory
Ideal object
Mentioned in Fairbairn's endopsychic structural theory
Paired with central ego part-self.
This is what's left after the exciting and rejecting aspects are sheered away from the exciting and rejecting.
This was introduced in Fairbairn's 1954 paper Observations on the nature of hysterical states.