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Melanie Klein : her work in context / Meira Likierman.

By: Likierman, Meira.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Continuum, 2001 (2005 printing)Description: v, 202 p. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0826457703.Subject(s): Child analysis | PsychoanalysisDDC classification: 150.195
Contents:
'Her writing gave me a shock' - Introduction -- 'The necessity of noticing the delicate indications of criticism' - Ferenczi, Freud and Klein's encounter with psychoanalysis -- 'How ships get on to the Danube' - The development of a child -- 'Not simply a case of uninhibited gratification' - The first child patients -- 'Figures wholly divorced from reality' - The departure from Freud -- 'And who would doubt this?' - Early object love, psychical defences and dissociation processes -- 'Loss of the loved object' - Ambivalence and depressive states -- 'Loss of the loved object' - Tragedy and morality in the depressive position -- 'This unreal reality' - Klein's concept of phantasy -- 'A kind of detached hostility' - The paranoid-schizoid position -- 'Falling to pieces or splitting itself' - Projective identification, unintegrated states and splitting processes -- 'So unattainable' - Two accounts of envy -- 'An unsatisfied longing for an understanding without words' - Loneliness.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Her writing gave me a shock' - Introduction -- 'The necessity of noticing the delicate indications of criticism' - Ferenczi, Freud and Klein's encounter with psychoanalysis -- 'How ships get on to the Danube' - The development of a child -- 'Not simply a case of uninhibited gratification' - The first child patients -- 'Figures wholly divorced from reality' - The departure from Freud -- 'And who would doubt this?' - Early object love, psychical defences and dissociation processes -- 'Loss of the loved object' - Ambivalence and depressive states -- 'Loss of the loved object' - Tragedy and morality in the depressive position -- 'This unreal reality' - Klein's concept of phantasy -- 'A kind of detached hostility' - The paranoid-schizoid position -- 'Falling to pieces or splitting itself' - Projective identification, unintegrated states and splitting processes -- 'So unattainable' - Two accounts of envy -- 'An unsatisfied longing for an understanding without words' - Loneliness.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1. 'Her writing gave me a shock' Introduction (p. 1)
  • 2. 'The necessity of noticing the delicate indications of criticism' Ferenczi, Freud and Klein's Encounter with Psychoanalysis (p. 14)
  • 3. 'How ships get on to the Danube' The Development of a Child (p. 24)
  • 4. 'Not simply a case of uninhibited gratification' The First Child Patients (p. 44)
  • 5. 'Figures wholly divorced from reality' The Departure from Freud (p. 65)
  • 6. 'And who would doubt this?' Early Object Love, Psychical Defences and Dissociation Processes (p. 85)
  • 7. 'Loss of the loved object' Ambivalence and Depressive States (p. 100)
  • 8. 'Loss of the loved object' Tragedy and Morality in the Depressive Position (p. 112)
  • 9. 'This unreal reality' Klein's Concept of Phantasy (p. 136)
  • 10. 'A kind of detached hostility' The Paranoid-Schizoid Position (p. 144)
  • 11. 'Falling to pieces or splitting itself' Projective Identification, Unintegrated States and Splitting Processes (p. 156)
  • 12. 'So unattainable' Two Accounts of Envy (p. 172)
  • 13. 'An unsatisfied longing for an understanding without words' Loneliness (p. 192)
  • Index (p. 198)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Klein was arguably one of the three or four most influential psychoanalysts after Freud. More Freudian than Freud, she took seriously the notion of infantile fantasy, the importance of the dark emotions (envy, jealousy, greed, loneliness), and the critical role of the body in infant experience. She was strongly criticized, especially by Anna Freud, a controversy that split the British psychoanalytic community and reverberates still. The criticisms have been a source of distortion of Klein's work, which is difficult reading. This book is a useful corrective. Likierman's volume is an intellectual biography, more balanced than Phyllis Grosskurth's fuller but unrealistically heroic Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work (CH, Nov'86). For the most part chronologically organized, it describes Klein's ideas in an integrated, coherent way, using the intellectual context of Klein's works to elucidate meaning otherwise painstakingly rendered from the originals. Likierman treats the important influences on Klein (Ferenczi, Abraham, Fairbairn, and others) and Klein's influence on Winnicott and her adherent, Susan Isaacs. She offers no full discussion of Klein's multiple influences on current psychoanalysis worldwide; that would require another volume. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. R. Shilkret Mount Holyoke College

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dr Meira Likierman is a senior staff member at the Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, London. She has led the Tavistock MA in Psychoanalytic Studies and then the Tavistock Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She has lectured widely on psychotherapy training courses and university psychoanalytic studies courses.