Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context by Meira Likierman (English) Paperback Book

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Melanie Klein was probably the most controversial and influential figure on the British psychoanalytic scene. She pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis. This work assesses her work, life and influence.

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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.

Author Biography

Meira Likierman is a senior staff member at the Tavistock Clinic where she has been leader of the Psychoanalytic Studies MA program and the Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She is a Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Ferenczi, Freud and Klein's Encounter with Psychoanalysis - The Development of a Child - The First Child Patients - Departure from Freud - Early Object, Physical Defences and Dissociation Processes - Ambivalence and Depressive States - Tragedy and Morality in the Depressive Position - Klein's Concept of Phantasy - The Paranoid-Schizoid Position - Protective Identification, Unintegrated States and Splitting - Two Accounts of Envy - Loneliness

Review

"Klein has been quoted but she has never, until Likierman's book been properly read. This book reveals with patient lucidity just what is fascinating about Klein as a psychoanalytic theorist. It recovers her work, in other words, from the sentimentality and moralism in which her so-called followers have buried her. Likierman's Klein is a Klein for a new generation of readers."-Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored"A useful corrective. Likierman's volume is an intellectual biography, more balanced than Phyllis Grosskurth's....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."--Choice, November 2001

Long Description

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.>

Review Quote

"Klein has been quoted but she has never, until Likierman's book been properly read. This book reveals with patient lucidity just what is fascinating about Klein as a psychoanalytic theorist. It recovers her work, in other words, from the sentimentality and moralism in which her so-called followers have buried her. Likierman's Klein is a Klein for a new generation of readers."-Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored

Details ISBN0826457703 Author Meira Likierman Short Title MELANIE KLEIN Language English ISBN-10 0826457703 ISBN-13 9780826457707 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2002 Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Subtitle Her Work in Context Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations black & white illustrations Residence ENK Edition New edition DOI 10.1604/9780826457707 UK Release Date 2002-01-01 NZ Release Date 2002-01-01 Translated from English Pages 208 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date 2002-01-01 DEWEY 150.195092 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2002-12-31 We've got this

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