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Melanie Klein: Psychoanalytic Practice and Dialectic Theory
Abstract This paper explores Melanie Klein’s life and work, interpreting her radical psychoanalytic position theory—paranoid-schizoid and depressive (Ps-D)—as a circular progression of consciousness, experience, and realisation. Analysing Klein’s biography and clinical observations, the prerequisite of ambivalence is emphasised in the development of the ‘Ps’ and ‘D’ positions to precisely echo the development of contradiction as… Continue reading
Analyses, Bob Hinshelwood, Charles Taylor, Dialectical Synthesis, Hegelian dialectic, Julia Kristeva, Kleinist, Melanie Klein, Paranoid-Schizoid, Ps-Dacademic discourse, ambivalence, British Psychoanalytical Society, child analysis, clinical observation, clinical research, Consciousness, counter-transference, defense mechanisms, depressive position, Developmental psychology, dialectical process, Dialectical Synthesis, ego development, Freudian theory, Hegel, Hegelian dialectic, infant mental life, infantile anxiety, intellectual history, internal world, manic-depressive illness, maternal representation, Melanie Klein, Mental health, mental well-being, neurosis, Object Relations, paranoid-schizoid position, Paul Wadey, philosophical psychoanalysis, philosophical tension, preoedipal phase, Ps-D model, psychic conflict, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic practice, psychoanalytic theory, psychological development, psychosis, symbolic formation, therapeutic encounter, therapeutic implications
Reflections from a therapy room 