Introducing Melanie Klein / Robert Hinshelwood, Susan Robinson and Oscar Zarate ; edited by Richard Appignanesi
1999, First Edition. Cambridge New York, NY : Icon Books ; Totem Books. First UK edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #439062
ISBN: 9781840460698
Physical description; 169, [6] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 170) and index. Contents; Introducing Melanie Klein -- Melanie's childhood -- Early sorrows -- Education and marriage -- A destiny of travel -- Struggles with Libussa -- The First World War -- Analysis with Ferenczi -- First encounter with child analysis -- The Little Hans case -- Early contributions to child analysis -- The move to Berlin -- The pioneer, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth -- Melanie's work begins -- The case of Ruth -- Differences with Freud ... -- ... And suspicions about Klein -- The Bloomsbury set -- Acceptance in Britain -- The climate for analysis in London -- Origin of Klein's object-relations -- The case of Peter -- Disputes begin -- The problem of transference -- Totemic fathers -- Refining Freud's theories -- Tackling psychotic disorders : the case of Dick -- An empty space -- Filling the space with symbols -- The case of John -- The depressive position -- Mourning and melancholia -- The fate of the lost object -- Loss and creativity -- Klein's idea of position -- Understanding the depressive position -- What does Klein mean by "psychotic"? -- So, what is the depressive position? -- Taking inside oneself : introjection -- Timing the super-ego -- Working from the inner state -- Internal objects -- A case example of internal objects -- Another case example : unconscious phantasy -- The combined parent figure -- Externalizing the internal -- Reparation -- The good object inside : Richard's response -- Coming to terms with reality -- The pain of the depressive position -- Persecutory guilt -- Projection and introjection -- Trouble in the Psycho-Analytical Society -- A three-way split -- Klein's interest in psychotic conditions -- Part-objects -- The bad breast -- Splitting the ego -- Projective identification -- Narcissism -- Klein's view of healthy development -- The paranoid-schizoid position ... -- ... And the death instinct -- Preconceptions -- The fear of death from within -- Persecutory anxiety -- A projective form of identification -- Transference -- Counter-transference -- Bion's "containing function" -- Repetition and the death instinct -- Klein's work on Envy -- Defining envy -- Melanie Klein's death -- Melanie Klein's continuing lagacy -- Klein and group therapy -- Klein and feminism -- Klein and Lacan. Subjects; Klein, Melanie. Klein, Melanie Influence. Klein, Melanie ; Comic books, strips, etc. Klein, Melanie ; Popular works. Psychoanalysis Austria. Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Theory.
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