Object relations theory and represantation of god

Human as one of the most complicated organisms in the world in terms of his physical and psychological equipment spends up his all attention and interest discovering outer world rather than knowing and understanding himself. During the process of discovering, he has eventually given credit for his reasoning and usually recognized it as superior toll against other creatures. However, it is a fact that the ability of reasoning which we trust mostly misleads us about the matters especially related to human beings. Perhaps, one of the most prominent matters is personality. So that, today mankind being qualified to speak on far galaxies and even on the limits of the universe has very limited words on the structure surrounding itself and even on his limits. Although psychoanalysis, appeared at the beginning of the last century, is not able to show yet the start and finish points of its limits to modern human, it has informed him about that the house in which he lives (personality) does not belong to him. Freud who has produced new notions and terms in order to understand and explain this ambiguous structure failed because of excessively bringing his theory of narcissism and child sexuality in the foreground. These notions and terms used for the first time by Freud became a start point for many psychoanalysts who disqualified classical drive theory in clinical trials and thus had to develop their own personality models. These theorists asserting similar thoughts and ideas on human personality have begun to come together under the groups called school or model. The first psychoanalysts considering the urge to seek relation in human being and thus the notion of relation as the most powerful humanly motivation and thinking that the development of personality was shaped substantially by mother-infant relation throughout the preoedipal term were called as object relation theorists. M. Klein, Fairbairn, and D. Winnicott are the prominent and important representatives of this school. According to object relation theorist, the development of a sense of self begins early in life through the formation of relational schemas. The role of the individual?s family environment in the formation of these schemas is quite important. Because the process of becoming a self begins in the family. Not only does the family environment nurture the sense of self in a child, there also occur the development of images of God. In other words, object relation theorists assume that the representation of God has its main source in early object relations. In this respect, the representation of God is considered as a special kind of object representation. Keywords: Psychology of Religion, Psychoanalysis, Object Relation, Represantation of God, Winnicott, Transitional Object.