Reading Klein
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Reading Klein
（New library of psychoanalysis, Teaching series）
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-195) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reading Klein provides an introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest psychoanalysts, known in particular for her contribution in developing child analysis and for her vivid depiction of the inner world. This book makes Melanie Klein's works highly accessible, providing both substantial extracts from her writings, and commentaries by the authors exploring their significance.
Each chapter corresponds to a major field of Klein's work outlining its development over almost 40 years. The first part is concerned with her theoretical and clinical contributions. It shows Klein to be a sensitive clinician deeply concerned for her patients, and with a remarkable capacity to understand their unconscious anxieties and to revise our understanding of the mind. The second part sets out the contribution of her ideas to morality, to aesthetics and to the understanding of society, introducing writing by her associates as well as herself.
The book provides a lucid account of Klein's published writing, presented by two distinguished writers who know her work well and have made creative use of it in their own clinical and extra-clinical writing. Its aim is to show how substantial her contribution to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice was, and how indispensable it remains to understanding the field of psychoanalysis.
Reading Klein will be a highly valuable resource for students, trainees in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic practitioners and all who are interested in Melanie Klein and her legacy.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART 1
Klein's early work: children's upbringing, education and child analysis
Epistemophilia :the love of understanding and its inhibition
Technique in child analysis
Mourning, the discovery of the depressive position and its implications for the theory of Oedipal development
Splitting, the paranoid-schizoid position and the concept of projective identification
The unique status of Narrative of a Child Analysis
Envy and gratitude
PART 2
Introduction to Part 2: ethics, aesthetics, society and the work of Melanie Klein
Kleinian ethics: the morality of love and hate
Kleinian aesthetics
Klein and society
Afterword
Suggestions for further reading
Publications by Melanie Klein
Bibliography
Index
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