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Love, Guilt and Reparation and other works 1921-1945
Melanie Klein
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Description for Love, Guilt and Reparation and other works 1921-1945
paperback. This is a new edition of Melanie Klein's key work on child psychology, previously published by the Hogarth Press in 1975 and Virago in 1988. It contains a foreword by Dr Hanna Segal and explanatory notes by the Editorial Board of the Melanie Klein Trust. The book shows the growth of Klein's work and ideas between 1921 and 1945. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 130 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 358.
Love, Guilt and Reparation shows the growth of Melanie Klein`s work and ideas between 1921 and 1945.
The earlier papers reveal her intense proccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development. She traces these influences on criminality and childhood psychosis, symbol formation and intellectual inhibition and the early development of conscience. In the final paper on the Oedipus complex, Klein develops her theories of the earliest infant stages of development, extending Freud`s analysis of the Oedipus complex and laying a basis for her own subsequent conceptualising of the paranoid-schizoid position in the first six months of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099752813
SKU
V9780099752813
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About Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein was born in Vienna in 1882. At about fourteen she decided to study medicine. With her brother's help she learned enough Greek and Latin to pass into the Gymnasium. But her early engagement and subsequent marriage in 1903 brought a halt to her plans. Years later, discovering a booklet on dreams by Freud, she turned her attention to ... Read more
Reviews for Love, Guilt and Reparation and other works 1921-1945
Klein's ideas about children, along with her many innovations in adult therapy, placed her in the top ranks of a group of 20th-century psychoanalysts who pioneered the study of early childhood psychology
Boston Globe
[A] seminal psychoanalytic thinker
New York Times
Boston Globe
[A] seminal psychoanalytic thinker
New York Times