The paranoid-schizoid position

The paranoid-schizoid position, along with the depressive position, is one of Melanie Klein’s two modes of emotive-cognitive functioning. The paranoid-schizoid position is defined by the use of splitting. Splitting happens for emotional reasons, but it leads to certain cognitive consequences. I argue in this chapter that splitting leads to a complex, interwoven, and consistent logical system: what I call, “the logic of splitting.”