Melanie Klein : her work in context / Meira Likierman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Likierman, Meira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Klein, Melanie.

Child analysis.

Child psychology.

Psychoanalysis.

Klein, Melanie, 1882-1960--Influence.

Local Subjects:

Klein, Melanie, 1882-1960--Influence.

Physical Description:

202 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.

Summary:

Melanie Klein remains one of the most important and influential figures in psychoanalysis. Klein pioneered the analysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis.Meira Likierman's study is the best available introduction to Melanie Klein's thought and work.

Contents:

1. 'Her writing gave me a shock' Introduction 1

2. 'The necessity of noticing the delicate indications of criticism' Ferenczi; Freud and Klein's Encounter with Psychoanalysis 14

3. 'How ships get on to the Danube' The Development of a Child 24

4. 'Not simply a case of uninhibited gratification' The First Child Patients 44

5. 'Figures wholly divorced from reality' The Departure from Freud 65

6. 'And who would doubt this?' Early Object Love, Psychical Defences and Dissociation Processes 85

7. 'Loss of the loved object' Ambivalence and Depressive States 100

8. 'Loss of the loved object' Tragedy and Morality in the Depressive Position 112

9. 'This unreal reality' Klein's Concept of Phantasy 136

10. 'A kind of detached hostility' The Paranoid-Schizoid Position 144

11. 'Falling to pieces or splitting itself' Projective Identification, Unintegrated States and Splitting Processes 156

12. 'So unattainable' Two Accounts of Envy 172

13. 'An unsatisfied longing for an understanding without words' Loneliness 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826451942

OCLC:

46933565