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The Psychodynamic Theory of Melanie Klein

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The Psychodynamic Theory of Melanie Klein

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ByHarry Guntrip, J. D. Sutherland
BookPersonality Structure and Human Interaction

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1961
Imprint Routledge
Pages 19
eBook ISBN 9780429478192

ABSTRACT

Melanie Klein carries object-relationships right back through the Freudian so-called narcissistic and autoerotic phases to the beginning of the infant's separate bodily life. The theory of psychic structure evolved from Melanie Klein's clinical findings was to the effect that it consisted of phantasied or imaginary ego-object relationships which had become persistent, almost permanent, organizational features of the deeper psychic life. Psychic Reality, and its structuring in terms of internal objects and internal object-relations, is made manifest in Phantasy, of which day and night dreams and the play of children are the most clinically relevant examples. Freud considered, and psycho-analysts of all types agree, that hallucination is the earliest infantile form of mental experience and activity in response to delay in the satisfaction of needs, so that the world of the dream, unlike our conscious intellectual processes, goes back to the very beginnings of the dreamer's individual life.

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