Melanie Klein in Berlin

Frank, Claudia

doi:10.4324/9780203878361

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“…So Klein, as a mother, may have been especially alert to the way children expressed their feelings. Indeed the 'first case' she refers to was probably one of her own children, Erich her youngest (born 1914; see Grosskurth 1986, Frank 2009. Her analyst at the time, Sandor Ferenczi as well as many other analysts in the early years, including Freud and Karl Abraham, were observing young children for the theoretical purpose of confirming the development of the libido Freud had laid out from his work with adult patients.…”

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Anxiety: Melanie Klein's 'deeper' layers

Hinshelwood

2021

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In Klein’s development of a clinical practice with children, she concentrated on the presence and content of anxiety in the little patient’s play. This led her away from a basic theory grounded in instincts and energy. As her method developed and her experience accumulated she emphasized the meanings of anxiety and in particular the forms it took in unconscious phantasy. Ultimately, she became aware of profound phantasies, and anxiety, in her patients about the formation and integrity of the ego, and not just the neurotic conflicts the ego struggles with – those anxieties about identity she called the deeper layers of the unconscious.

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