Melanie Klein: Early Analysis, Play, and the Question of Freedom by Deborah P. B

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This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time.

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This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein's relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation.  Klein's vocabulary—the paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions, phantasy, object relations, projective identification, anxiety, envy, and the urge for reparation and gratitude— are discussed in terms of their evolution and the designs of her main questions, all stemming from the problem of inhibition. Her contribution to an understanding of symbolization and the shift from concrete thinking to greater freedom of mind is analyzed. The essay develops the following questions: why is learning an emotional situation?  How did Klein's life and larger history influence her views? What are her central theories of mental life? Why did Klein focus on anxiety and phantasies as making up the life of the mind? What is object relations theory? And, what does Klein's model of the self proffer to contemporary education in schools and in universities?

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This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein's relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation. Klein's vocabulary--the paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions, phantasy, object relations, projective identification, anxiety, envy, and the urge for reparation and gratitude-- are discussed in terms of their evolution and the designs of her main questions, all stemming from the problem of inhibition. Her contribution to an understanding of symbolization and the shift from concrete thinking to greater freedom of mind is analyzed. The essay develops the following questions: why is learning an emotional situation? How did Klein's life and larger history influence her views? What are her central theories of mental life? Why did Klein focus on anxiety and phantasies as making up the life of the mind? What is object relations theory? And, what does Klein's model of the self proffer to contemporary education in schools and in universities?

Author Biography

Deborah Britzman is Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is author of seven books, over 80 referred articles and is known for her contribution in education and psychoanalysis. Britzman is also a psychoanalyst with a small clinical practice.

Table of Contents

Affecting Psychoanalysis.-The Early Education of Psychoanalysis.- Away from Education: Step by Step.- The Psychoanalytic Situation: Early Analysis and Its Theory of Play Technique.- "Everything good and bad": Developing The Depressive Position and Imagination.- "Six Degrees of Separation": The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-1945.- "If I Were You": A Phantasy in Two Parts.- Narratives of the Psychoanalytic Situation: On The Friendship of Mrs K. and Richard.

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Examines Klein's relevance for education through her understanding of the inner world Discusses how Klein's theory questions what we imagine as objects of learning and how we imagine learning occurs Analyzes a number of deep existential, philosophical, and relational dilemmas on the nature of teaching and learning

Details ISBN3319260839 Author Deborah P. Britzman Language English Year 2015 ISBN-10 3319260839 ISBN-13 9783319260839 Format Paperback Short Title MELANIE KLEIN 2016/E Media Book Residence US Birth 1952 Pages 112 Edition 1st Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle Early Analysis, Play, and the Question of Freedom Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Illustrations VI, 112 p. Publication Date 2015-11-16 UK Release Date 2015-11-16 Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2016 DEWEY 150.195092 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Series SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education We've got this

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