Envy And Gratitude And Other Works 1946-1963
Melanie Klein
- A
- perfect
- introduction
- to
- Melanie
- Klein’s
- modern
- neuroscientific
- research.Melanie
- Klein's
- writings,
- particularly
- on
- infant
- development
- and
- psychosis,
- have
- been
- crucial
- both
- to
- theoretical
- work
- and
- to
- clinical
- practice.
- Envy
- and
- Gratitude
- collects
- her
- writings
- from
- 1946
- until
- her
- death
- in
- 1960,
- including
- two
- papers
- published
- posthumously.Klein's
- major
- paper,
- 'Notes
- on
- Some
- Schizoid
- Mechanisms',
- introduces
- the
- concept
- of
- the
- paranoid-schizoid
- position,
- in
- which
- the
- infant
- ego
- splits,
- projects
- and
- introjects
- its
- objects
- -
- most
- particularly
- the
- mother
- -
- during
- the
- first
- few
- months
- of
- life.
- Envy
- and
- Gratitude,
- her
- last
- major
- work,
- introduces
- her
- theory
- of
- primary envy.
