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Her Work in Context

By: Meira Likierman

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Paperback | 1 January 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Melanie Klein was probably the most controversial and influential figure that has yet appeared on the British psychoanalytic scene. She left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the analysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis.

In this critical yet sympathetic book, Meira Likierman of the Tavistock clinic assesses the work, life and lasting influence of this brilliant figure. Meira Likierman's study is the best available introduction to Melanie Klein's thought and work.

'Klein has been quoted but she has never, until Likierman's book been properly read. This book reveals with patient lucidity just what is fascinating about Klein as a psychoanalytic theorist . . . Likierman's Klein is a Klein for a new generation of readers.'
Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored

'Likierman's achievment is impressive . . . she has been able to find, in the midst of Klein's complex and often turgid prose, subtleties of perceptiveness and meaning that are not apparent to any but the most careful reader.'
Elizabeth Bott Spillius, International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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"A useful corrective. Likierman's volume is an intellectual biography, more balanced than Phyllis Grosskurth's....For the most part chronologically organized, it describes Klein's ideas in an integrated, coherent way, using the intellectual context of Klein's works to elucidate meaning otherwise painstakingly rendered from the originals." Choice, November 2001

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Non-Fiction Psychology Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Psychoanalytical Theory & Freudian Psychology Biographies & True Stories Biographies History General & World History

'Her writing gave me a shock' Introduction	p. 1
'The necessity of noticing the delicate indications of criticism' Ferenczi, Freud and Klein's Encounter with Psychoanalysis	p. 14
'How ships get on to the Danube' The Development of a Child	p. 24
'Not simply a case of uninhibited gratification' The First Child Patients	p. 44
'Figures wholly divorced from reality' The Departure from Freud	p. 65
'And who would doubt this?' Early Object Love, Psychical Defences and Dissociation Processes	p. 85
'Loss of the loved object' Ambivalence and Depressive States	p. 100
'Loss of the loved object' Tragedy and Morality in the Depressive Position	p. 112
'This unreal reality' Klein's Concept of Phantasy	p. 136
'A kind of detached hostility' The Paranoid-Schizoid Position	p. 144
'Falling to pieces or splitting itself' Projective Identification, Unintegrated States and Splitting Processes	p. 156
'So unattainable' Two Accounts of Envy	p. 172
'An unsatisfied longing for an understanding without words' Loneliness	p. 192
Index	p. 198
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