Freudian theory
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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 -
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
“As psychotherapists, we are neither casual observers nor scientists studying the journeying of the Other from afar. We are fellow travellers, experienced ethical people navigating the contoured landscape of human experiences, sharing insights along that shared path, gently challenging assumptions or biases, and learning from our clients as they chose a path away from the… Continue reading
Analyses, analytical history, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, CG Jung, Death, Death Drive, Death Instinct, Essay, Freud, Happiness, Paul Wadey, Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical History, Psychodynamic, Psychology, Pursuit of happiness, Reality Principle, Relational psychoanalytic, Spielrein, Thanatos, Todestrieb, UnhappinessAvoidance of unhappiness, Balance, Balance of principles, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Death Drive, Death Instinct, Freud, Freudian theory, Happiness, Narrative non-fiction, Paul Wadey, Philosophical essay, Philosophy, Pleasure Principle, psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic History, Psychology, Psychology essay, Pursuit of happiness, Reality Principle, Sabina Spielrein, Sigmund Freud, Societal expectations, Unhappiness, Wilhelm Stekel