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ONE COULD DIVIDE Melanie Klein's contributions to psychoanalytical theory and technique broadly into three distinct phases. The first phase starts with her paper "On the Development of the Child" and culminates in the publication of The Psycho-Analysis of Children in 1932. During this phase she laid the foundations of child analysis and traced the Oedipus complex and the super-ego to early developmental roots. The second phase led to the formulation of the concept of the depressive position and the manic defence mechanisms, described mainly in her paper "A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of the Manic Depressive States" (1934) and "Mourning and its Relation to Manic Depressive States" (1940). The third phase was concerned with the earliest stage, which she called the paranoid-schizoid position, mainly formulated in her paper "Notes on some Schizoid Mechanisms" (1946) and in her book Envy and Gratitude (1957). There is a significant change in her theoretical outlook, from the time of her formulation of the concept of positions in 1934. Up till that time she followed Freud and Abraham in describing her findings in terms of libidinal stages and the structural theory of the ego, super

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Author

Hanna Segal

Publisher

Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780429915192

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences