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    Melanie Klein (née Reizes; 30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960) was an Austrian-British author and psychoanalyst known for her work in child analysis. She...
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    phallus) was central to infantile and adult psychosexual development, Melanie Klein concentrated on the early maternal relationship, proposing that Oedipal...
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  • theory of Melanie Klein pivoted around the importance of love and hate, concern for and destruction of others, from infancy onwards. Klein stressed the...
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    share the cause of their suffering with others. In 1963, psychoanalyst Melanie Klein provided an interpretation of Cassandra as representing the human moral...
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    castrated by her father. The desire for a child also becomes masochistic. Melanie Klein, originator of the Kleinian school of psychoanalysis, agreed with the...
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  • possible in the future when psychoanalytic technique had been improved. Melanie Klein was a pupil of Ferenczi. In 1932 she published her seminal book The...
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  • present context. Subsequent psychoanalysts such as Jacques Lacan and Melanie Klein have defended the concept. The standard edition of Freud's works in...
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  • predominantly adopted and exploited by Melanie Klein. After Freud, "the most important contribution has come from Melanie Klein, whose work enlightens the idea...
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  • the school of Anna Freud and that of Melanie Klein, which later influenced psychoanalytic politics worldwide. Klein was popularized in South America while...
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  • In development psychology, Melanie Klein proposed a "(psychic) position theory" instead of a "(psychic) stage theory". In object relations theory, the...
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  • The term reparation was used by Melanie Klein (1921) to indicate a psychological process of making mental repairs to a damaged internal world. In object...
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    to the field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology...
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  • Projective identification is a term introduced by Melanie Klein and then widely adopted in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Projective identification may...
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  • psychoanalysts, such as Karen Horney, Ernest Jones, Helene Deutsch, and Melanie Klein, specifically on the treatment of penis envy as a fixed operation as...
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  • anxiety is a term developed in relation to the depressive position by Melanie Klein, building on Freud's seminal article on object relations of 1917, 'Mourning...
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    Austrian tennis player Melanie Klein (1882–1960), Austrian–English psychoanalyst Melanie Kreis (born 1971), German businesswoman Melanie Lambert (born 1974)...
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  • 'internalization of self and other'), although often attributed to Melanie Klein, were actually first mentioned by Sigmund Freud in his early concepts...
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    artistic creations instead of into symptoms ... the doom of neurosis." Melanie Klein extended Freud's concept of fantasy to cover the developing child's...
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  • instead retreat into a comfort zone. The idea was first described by Melanie Klein in her psychoanalytic research on stages of narcissism in children....
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    him. Her work influenced such notable psychoanalysts as Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Jean Berges and Gabriel Balbo. Hug-Hellmuth was born into a Catholic...
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  • psychoanalysts, including Wilfred Bion, Donald Winnicott, Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. Today it has over 400 members and is a member organisation of the International...
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  • to find a specific cause any given (perverse or neurotic) fixation. Melanie Klein saw fixation as inherently pathological – a blocking of potential sublimation...
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  • Mothers of Psychoanalysis: Helene Deutsch, Keren Horney, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein. W.W. Horton & Company. p. 25. ISBN 0-393-03041-5. Roazen, Paul (1985)...
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  • Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions. The term was frequently used by Melanie Klein, especially to refer to a pre-depressive and persecutory sense of anxiety...
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  • and, in predisposed persons, the agents will attack the self. Melanie Klein: Melanie Klein's idea of unconscious phantasy is closely related to Jung's archetype...
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  • Fantasy of the Exquisite Corpse", where she argues that Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein confuse introjection with incorporation and that Ferenczi's definition...
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  • Press. Klein, Melanie 1932. Chapter 2, The Psychoanalysis of Children. In The Writings of Melanie Klein Volume 2. London: Hogarth Press. Klein, Melanie (1935)...
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  • projected, in contrast to the total repudiation of projection proper.) Melanie Klein saw the projection of good parts of the self as leading potentially...
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    Wilfred Bion (category Analysands of Melanie Klein)
    1946 and 1952, with Melanie Klein. He met his second wife, Francesca, at the Tavistock in 1951. He joined a research group of Klein's students (including...
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  • Adler, Carl Jung, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, Otto Rank, Erik Erikson, Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut, built upon Freud's fundamental ideas and often developed...
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