1st Edition

Immaterial Facts Freud's Discovery of Psychic Reality and Klein's Development of His Work

By Robert Caper Copyright 2000
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    161 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1999. Shows how Melanie Klien's studies of sexuality aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children extended and corrected Freud's theories of the development of the superego and early stages of the Oedipus complex.

    Part 1 Freud’s Discovery of Psychic Reality; Chapter 1 Immaterial Facts; Chapter 2 Psychology without a Psyche; Chapter 3 The Discovery of Unconscious Fantasy; Chapter 4 The Structure of Dreams and Neurosis; Chapter 5 Transference and the Crystallization of the Psychoanalytic Method; Chapter 6 Gravitational Confinement; Chapter 7 A Specimen Case: Little Hans; Chapter 8 Identification and the Structure of the Inner World; Chapter 9 Anxiety and the Structure of the Inner World; Chapter 10 Beyond Eros; Part 2 Melanie Klein’s Development of Freud’s Work; Chapter 11 Melanie Klein’s Place in Psychoanalysis; Chapter 12 The Method of Child Psychoanalysis; Chapter 13 The Child’s Construction of Experience; Chapter 14 Instinct, Fantasy, and Early Psychic Processes; Chapter 15 Projective Identification and the Formation of the Inner World; Chapter 16 The Transformation of the Superego: Psychological Integration and Growth; Chapter 17 The Early Stages of the Oedipus Complex; Chapter 18 Envy and Gratitude, Splitting and Integration; Chapter 19 Psychoanalytic Knowledge; Chapter 20 Freud and Klein: A Summary;

    Biography

    Dr. Robert Caper is a graduate of Reed College and UCLA School of Medicine. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Centre of California, and the author of A Mind of One’s Own, as well as numerous papers on psychoanalytic theory and technique.