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

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Psychology Press, 2000 - Medical - 161 pages
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.
 

Contents

Immaterial Facts
3
Psychology without a Psyche
11
The Discovery of Unconscious Fantasy
17
The Structure of Dreams and Neurosis
25
Transference and the Crystallization of
32
Gravitational Confinement
43
Identification and the Structure of the Inner World
56
Beyond Eros
67
The Childs Construction of Experience
87
Instinct Fantasy and Early Psychic Processes
94
Projective Identification and the Formation of
100
Projective Identification and the Psychoanalysis
108
The Early Stages of the Oedipus Complex
123
Envy and Gratitude Splitting and Integration
134
Psychoanalytic Knowledge
141
References
153

Melanie Kleins Place in Psychoanalysis
73
The Method of Child Psychoanalysis
79

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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.

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