2.5 On Melanic Klein
ON MELANIE KLEIN
She went straight for the primitive, and
The primitive is never transcended.
Oct 27, 2004
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Melanie Klein: Innovative and Transitional Theorist (Object Relations and Self Psychology: An Introduction, by Michael St. Clair, Thomson, 2004, Chap 3)
Melanie Klein I & II (Robert Young, 2000)
(1) Introduction:
… preserved Freud’s emphasis on instinct but understood instinct as intrinsically connected with objects … drives are relational … her understanding of the preverbal, inner world of a child’s object relations stands as her prime achievement … From her observations of infants, and children, she stretched and rearranged Freudian ideas of object and instinct, although not as far as her contemporary, W.R.D. Fairbairn, who fashioned a model of personality based exclusively on objects and object relations.
(2) Key Concepts: