The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45

Charles Rycroft and the Making of an Independent Psychoanalyst

“…That is, he was a member of that troop of British analysts who-unlike the other two factions into which the British Society divided, one under the leadership of Anna Freud and the other under Melanie Klein-neither rallied around the personality of a charismatic leader nor espoused a specific theory of reference. The identity of the Independents was, instead, defined "in negative terms" (Rycroft, /1985dKohon, 1986, p. 49), i.e., in opposition to the Anna-Freudian and Kleinian groups who were, at that time, giving rise to a fierce controversy (King & Steiner, 1991). If we wish to arrive at an in-depth understanding of the Independents' standing in the British Society, we need to trace the key stages in the history of psychoanalysis in Great Britain.…”

Shades of Mark Twain: Commentary on Paper by Steven H. Cooper

“…Hayley said that we could not afford to discard any psychoanalytic theories, because the day would come when a patient would arrive who was just as described by Winnicott or Klein, Bion or Anna Freud, and in the cause of offering a proper treatment to our patients we could not afford to restrict our tools to too few limited models. It could be said that since the Gentleman's Agreement, which concluded the controversial discussions in 1945 (King & Steiner, 1991), in the British situation we have institutionalized the pluralistic third such that much discourse is overtly or at least in the back of one's mind pervaded by the sense of "what members of the others groups would say or do. "…”

“The Light Militia of the Lower Sky”: The Deeper Nature of Dreaming and Phantasying

“…and Cs. This distinction was arrived at as a convention during the Controversial Discussions (King and Steiner, 1992).…”