I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object - internal and external - without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego.
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It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.Melanie Klein
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