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Abstract

The paper compares the new results of infant observation and research with the view of the Budapest School of psychoanalysis and some later approaches of the theory of object relations about the early infant development. The author states that the Hungarian psychoanalysis, by focusing on the early object relations, could theoretically describe some phenomena which were empirically validated only later and thereby it could create traditions which can serve as a basis for the child psychotherapy and current mother-infant consultation.