Melanie Klein

A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

By: Julia Kristeva, Ross Guberman (Translator)

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To the renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein (1882â"1960) was the most original innovator, male or female, in the psychoanalytic arena. Klein pioneered psychoanalytic practice with children and made major contributions to our understanding of both psychosis and autism. Along the way, she successfully introduced a new approach to the theory of the unconscious without abandoning the principles set forth by Freud. In her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, the prolific Kristeva considers Klein's life and intellectual development, weaving a narrative that covers the history of psychoanalysis and illuminates Kristeva's own life and work.

Kristeva tells the remarkable story of Klein's life: an unhappy wife and mother who underwent analysis, and-without a medical or other advanced degree-became an analyst herself at the age of 40. In examining her work, Kristeva proposes that Klein's "break" with Freud was really an attempt to complete his theory of the unconscious. Kristeva addresses Klein's numerous critics, and, in doing so, bridges the wide gulf between the clinical and theoretical worlds of psychoanalysis.

Klein is celebrated here as the first person to see the mother as the source of not only creativity, but of thought itself, and the first to consider the place of matricide in psychic development. As such, Klein is a seminal figure in the evolution of the provocative ideas about motherhood and the psyche for which Kristeva is most famous. Klein is thus, in a sense, a mother to Kristeva, making this book an account of the development of Kristeva's own thought as well as Klein's.

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Kristeva, a formidable cultural historian and critic, brings a rich mix of data and ideas. Library Journal Not only is Kristeva superbly successful in this elaboration, but also I believe she is sometimes superior to Klein herself in the conceptual articulation of clinical insights. -- Aleksandar Dimitrijevic Metapsychology

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Introduction: The Psychoanalytic Century	p. 5
Jewish Families, European Stories: a Depression and Its Aftermath	p. 17
Libussa	p. 17
Jews and Catholics	p. 21
Sandor Ferenczi	p. 24
Karl Abraham	p. 27
London	p. 30
Analyzing Her Children: from Scandal to Play Technique	p. 35
The Unconscious Knowledge (of the Child) Versus the Enlightenment (of the Parents)	p. 38
Inventing Stories with Erich/Fritz	p. 40
Hans and (Perhaps) Melitta	p. 45
Playing? Interpreting	p. 48
Plain Words, Negative Transference, and Decondensation of the Phantasy	p. 51
The Priority and Interiority of the Other and the Bond: the Baby is Born with His Objects	p. 57
Narcissism and the Object	p. 57
Inside/Outside	p. 61
The "Paranoid-Schizoid Position": Splitting and Projective Identification	p. 66
The Depressive Position: The Whole Object, the Psychic Realm, and Reparation	p. 73
Anxiety or Desire: in the Beginning was the Death Drive	p. 82
Eros Absorbed into Thanatos: Sadistic Devouring and the Anal Attack	p. 82
The Grief that Affords Us a Soul	p. 89
The Power of Envy and a Wager on Gratitude	p. 91
Petits Fours, kleine Frou, Frau Klein	p. 94
A Most Early and Tyrannical Superego	p. 98
From the Earliest Stages of the Oedipus Conflict	p. 98
Neither Boys nor Girls Can Avoid It	p. 101
Persecuting Idealizations and "Concretizations"	p. 102
The Case of Richard: Goodness Versus Hitler-Ubu	p. 104
How Can We Avoid Being Alone?	p. 111
The Cult of the Mother or an Ode to Matricide? The Parents	p. 114
The Perpetually Renewed Breast	p. 114
A Primary Feminine Phase	p. 118
Female Sexuality ...	p. 121
... and Male Sexuality	p. 126
The "Combined" or Coupled Parents	p. 128
An Oresteia	p. 132
The Phantasy as a Metaphor Incarnate	p. 137
The Representative Before Representation	p. 137
"Prenarrative Envelopes" Between Anxiety and Language	p. 144
Do Women Have an Affinity for the Archaic?	p. 150
The Immanence of Symbolism and Its Degrees	p. 158
From Equations to Symbols: Dick	p. 158
Klein on Negativity	p. 169
The Post-Kleinian Approach to the Archaic and the Primary	p. 177
Cultural Acts of Sublimation: Art and Literature	p. 186
From the Foreign Language to the Filigree of the Loyal and Disloyal	p. 192
A Founder Without a Text	p. 192
Mother and Daughter	p. 202
Peace and War Among the Ladies	p. 207
The Politics of Kleinianism	p. 213
From the Great Controversial Discussions to the Independents	p. 213
Lacan's Envy and Gratitude	p. 225
The Left and the Feminists Take Hold of the "Inspired Gut Butcher"	p. 230
The Inner Mother and the Depth of Thought	p. 241
Notes	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 277
Index	p. 285
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