Encounters with Melanie Klein : selected papers of Elizabeth Spillius / Elizabeth Spillius ; edited and with a preface by Priscilla Roth and Richard Rusbridger.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Spillius, Elizabeth Bott, 1924-

Contributor:

• Roth, Priscilla Lenore.
• Rusbridger, Richard.

Series:

• New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)
• New library of psychoanalysis.
• The new library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Klein, Melanie.
• Psychoanalysis.
• Child analysis.
• Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her background in anthropology led her on to a profound involvement in psychoanalysis and her establishment as a leading figure amongst Kleinian analysts.Spillius describes what she regards as the important features of Kleinian thought and discusses the research she has carried out in Melanie Klein's unpublished archive, including Klein's views on projective identification.Spillius's

Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface by the editors; Acknowledgements; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: From Anthropology to Psychoanalysis; 1 Anthropology and psychoanalysis A personal concordance; 2 Kleinian thought: Overview and personal view; PART TWO: In Melanie Klein's Archive; Introduction: The Archive; 3 Melanie Klein revisited: Her unpublished thoughts on technique; 4 Melanie Klein on the past; 5 Projective identification: Back to the future; PART THREE: Interaction of Ideas and Clinical Work; 6 Clinical reflections on the negative therapeutic reaction
• 7 Varieties of envious experience8 Freud and Klein on the concept of phantasy; 9 Developments in Kleinian technique; 10 Recognition of separateness and otherness; References; Index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-239) and index.

ISBN:

• 1-134-11085-5
• 1-280-93220-1
• 9786610932207
• 0-203-94701-0

OCLC:

476089881