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Book SynopsisMelanie Klein remains one of the most important and influential figures in psychoanalysis. Klein pioneered the analysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis.Meira Likierman''s study is the best available introduction to Melanie Klein''s thought and work.
Trade Review"Klein has been quoted but she has never, until Likierman's book been properly read. This book reveals with patient lucidity just what is fascinating about Klein as a psychoanalytic theorist. It recovers her work, in other words, from the sentimentality and moralism in which her so-called followers have buried her. Likierman's Klein is a Klein for a new generation of readers."-Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored
"A useful corrective. Likierman's volume is an intellectual biography, more balanced than Phyllis Grosskurth's....For the most part chronologically organized, it describes Klein's ideas in an integrated, coherent way, using the intellectual context of Klein's works to elucidate meaning otherwise painstakingly rendered from the originals."--Choice, November 2001
Table of ContentsFerenczi, Freud and Klein's Encounter with Psychoanalysis - The Development of a Child - The First Child Patients - Departure from Freud - Early Object, Physical Defences and Dissociation Processes - Ambivalence and Depressive States - Tragedy and Morality in the Depressive Position - Klein's Concept of Phantasy - The Paranoid-Schizoid Position - Protective Identification, Unintegrated States and Splitting - Two Accounts of Envy - Loneliness
