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...

phallus) was central to infantile and adult psychosexual development, Melanie Klein concentrated on the early maternal relationship, proposing that Oedipal...

theory of Melanie Klein pivoted around the importance of love and hate, concern for and destruction of others, from infancy onwards. Klein stressed the...

share the cause of their suffering with others. In 1963, psychoanalyst Melanie Klein provided an interpretation of Cassandra as representing the human moral...

artistic creations instead of into symptoms ... the doom of neurosis." Melanie Klein extended Freud's concept of fantasy to cover the developing child's...

present context. Subsequent psychoanalysts such as Jacques Lacan and Melanie Klein have defended the concept. The standard edition of Freud's works in...

castrated by her father. The desire for a child also becomes masochistic. Melanie Klein, originator of the Kleinian school of psychoanalysis, agreed with the...

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...

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...

to the field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology...

predominantly adopted and exploited by Melanie Klein. After Freud, "the most important contribution has come from Melanie Klein, whose work enlightens the idea...

established what is known as interpersonal theory. British psychologists Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Harry Guntrip, Scott Stuart, and others[who?] extended...

Projective identification is a term introduced by Melanie Klein and then widely adopted in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Projective identification may...

In development psychology, Melanie Klein proposed a "(psychic) position theory" instead of a "(psychic) stage theory". In object relations theory, the...

him. Her work influenced such notable psychoanalysts as Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Jean Berges and Gabriel Balbo. Hug-Hellmuth was born into a Catholic...

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...

psychoanalysts, such as Karen Horney, Ernest Jones, Helene Deutsch, and Melanie Klein, specifically on the treatment of penis envy as a fixed operation as...

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...

English politician Melanie Klaffner (born 1990), Austrian tennis player Melanie Klein (1882–1960), Austrian–English psychoanalyst Melanie Kreis (born 1971)...

to find a specific cause any given (perverse or neurotic) fixation. Melanie Klein saw fixation as inherently pathological – a blocking of potential sublimation...

'internalization of self and other'), although often attributed to Melanie Klein, were actually first mentioned by Sigmund Freud in his early concepts...

among the neurotic defenses in his hierarchy of defense mechanisms. Melanie Klein in her early work had written of undoing in terms of a kind of magical...

of thought, of which Melanie Klein was a pioneer, considers envy to be crucial in understanding both love and gratitude. Klein defines envy as "the angry...

Fantasy of the Exquisite Corpse", where she argues that Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein confuse introjection with incorporation and that Ferenczi's definition...

Press. Klein, Melanie 1932. Chapter 2, The Psychoanalysis of Children. In The Writings of Melanie Klein Volume 2. London: Hogarth Press. Klein, Melanie (1935)...

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...

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...

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...

instead retreat into a comfort zone. The idea was first described by Melanie Klein in her psychoanalytic research on stages of narcissism in children....

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...