Term
splitting
A psychoanalytic term. In Grosz’s definition, an unconscious strategy that keeps us from recognizing in ourselves the feelings we cannot bear.
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, Stephen Grosz
Explained in
- The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, Stephen Grosz
- I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus
A mechanism in which a person sees someone as wholly good or wholly bad, with no middle. Described in psychoanalysis; the authors use it as an explanatory model.