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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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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Oedipus complex (section Melanie Klein)
phallus) was central to infantile and adult psychosexual development, Melanie Klein concentrated on the early maternal relationship, proposing that Oedipal...
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Cassandra (metaphor) (section Melanie Klein)
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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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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History of conversion therapy (section Melanie Klein)
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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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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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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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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