1st Edition
Reading Melanie Klein
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
Kleinian psychoanalysis has recently experienced a renaissance in academic and clinical circles. Reading Melanie Klein responds to the upsurge of interest in her work by bringing together the most innovative and challenging essays on Kleinian thought from the last two decades. The book features material which appears here for the first time in English, and several newly written chapters.... Read more
Contents: Introduction. Introduction to Melanie Klein. Melanie Klein and the Emergence of Modern Personal Life. Melanie Mell by Herself. The Question Child. 'Tea Daddy': Poor Mrs Klein and the Pencil Shavings. Tolerating Nothing. Negativity in the work of Melanie Klein. The Fissure of Authority: Violence and the Acquisition of Knowledge. Moral Sadism and Doubting One's Own Love: Kleinian Reflections on Melancholia. Anxiety in Klein: The Missing Witch's Letter. A Psychoanalytic Approach to Aesthetics. Death and Literary Authority: Marcel Proust and Melanie Klein. Notes on Citizen Kane. Index
Biography
John Phillips, John Phillips, Lyndsey Stonebridge
