ABSTRACT
Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas - in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactions between the infant's internal world of powerful primitive emotions of love and hate and the mothering that the infant receives - were greeted with skepticism but are now widely accepted as providing an invaluable way of understanding human cognitive and emotional development. Klein's insights shed light on persecuted states, guilt, the drive to create and to repair; they also provide the clinician with a theory of technique.
Klein's work has inspired the work of psychoanalysts around the world. Her concept of projective identification with its implications for the understanding of countertransference made a significant impact on her followers and on psychoanalysts in other countries and from other schools of thought. Further exploration of these ideas has led to greater understanding of how change occurs in psychoanalysis and has inspired a large literature with a particular focus on technique.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
Historical Frame
part II|260 pages
Theory and Practice
chapter Eleven|16 pages
Getting to know splitting as an organising unconscious phantasy, then and today
chapter Fifteen|11 pages
Some thoughts on addiction and perversion in psychoanalysis: theory and technique
chapter Seventeen|11 pages
“I used to think you were wonderful”: the persecution/idealisation cycle of melancholia
chapter Nineteen|12 pages
Primitive reparation and the repetition compulsion in the analysis of a borderline patient * , **
part III|58 pages
Work with Children
chapter Twenty-Three|14 pages
Psychoanalytic work with an adopted child with a history of early abuse and neglect
chapter Twenty-Four|10 pages
“At times when I see your face thinking, I am thinking as well”: a plea for an organising object
part IV|70 pages
Applied Contributions