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Melanie Klein and Object Relations Theory

A friend of mine (hi Barb) is interested in psychoanalysis and she sent me another link on the topic. Her favourite psychoanalyst- and recent object of study- is someone called Melanie Klein. This site gives some information on her theories, and also gives a nice sense of the wild and wooly nature of psychoanalytic theories in general. It’s heady stuff. This site discusses object relations theory more generally, and also has a short bio on Klein, containing this amusing quote: “Karen Horney placed her children in psychoanalysis with Klein to assist their growth and concluded that it did no good. Her daughters were confused and puzzled. Klein was always talking about penis envy and such things. Later Klein moved away from Freud.”

posted at 13:38 on Tue, 16 Aug, 2005 | path: /living



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