Selected Melanie Klein

✍ Scribed by Melanie Klein, Juliet Mitchell (Editor)

• Publisher: Free Press
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a thorough introduction to the stimulating and controversial ideas of the woman who charted the field of child analysis—Melanie Klein.

Freud was surprisingly silent on the “dim and shadowy era” of earliest infancy. It was Melanie Klein, one of Freud’s most innovative followers, who revolutionized child analysis with her “play technique,” illuminating the baby’s most primitive fantasies and conflicts. Now, at last, the most important of Klein’s writings are together in one volume, brilliantly edited and introduced by one of Britain’s best known feminist thinkers.

The Selected Melanie Klein feature the significant ideas of the woman who took the field of child analysis by storm, including her ideas on treatment of psychotics, revisions of Freud’s ideas on female sexuality, the discovery of the direct connection between normal ego development and psychosis, and the important role fantasy plays in daily life.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Editor's Note
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Retrospective
1. THE PSYCHO-ANALYTIC PLAY TECHNIQUE: ITS HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE (1955)
The 'British' Psychoanalyst
2. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF INFANT ANALYSIS (1926)
3. EARLY STAGES OF THE OEDIPUS CONFLICT (1928)
4. INFANTILE ANXIETY SITUATIONS REFLECTED IN A WORK OF ART AND IN THE CREATIVE IMPULSE (1929)
5. THE IMPORTANCE OF SYMBOL FORMATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EGO (1930)
Klein's Theory and the Foundation of a Kleinian School
6. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PSYCHOGENESIS OF MANIC-DEPRESSIVE STATES (1935)
7. MOURNING AND ITS RELATION TO MANIC-DEPRESSIVE STATES (1940)
8. NOTES ON SOME SCHIZOID MECHANISMS (1946)
9. THE ORIGINS OF TRANSFERENCE (1952)
10. A STUDY OF ENVY AND GRATITUDE (1956)
Notes
Selected Bibliography
The Writings of Melanie Klein
Index

✦ Subjects

Psychoanalysis, Child Analysis, Psychoses