Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius

by Spillius; Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780415419994
• ISBN10: 0415419999
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-08-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

P In EM Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius /EM the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her background in anthropology led her on to a profound involvement in psychoanalysis and her establishment as a leading figure amongst Kleinian analysts. /P P Spillius describes what she regards as the important features of Kleinian thought and discusses the research she has carried out in Melanie Klein's unpublished archive, including Klein's views on projective identification. /P P Spillius's own clinical ideas make up the last part of the book with papers on envy, phantasy, technique, the negative therapeutic reaction and otherness. Her writing has a clarity which is very particular to her; she conveys complicated ideas in a most straightforward manner, well illustrated with pertinent clinical material. /P P This book represents fifty years of the developing thought and scholarship of a talented anddedicated psychoanalyst. /P

Table of Contents

Preface by the editors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
General Introduction	p. 1
From Anthropology to Psychoanalysis
Anthropology and psychoanalysis: a personal concordance	p. 7
Kleinian thought: overview and personal view	p. 25
In Melanie Klein's Archive
Introduction: the Archive	p. 65
Melanie Klein revisited: her unpublished thoughts on technique	p. 67
Melanie Klein on the past	p. 87
Projective identification: back to the future	p. 106
Interaction of Ideas and Clinical Work
Clinical reflections on the negative therapeutic reaction	p. 129
Varieties of envious experience	p. 140
Freud and Klein on the concept of phantasy	p. 163
Developments in Kleinian technique	p. 183
Recognition of separateness and otherness	p. 199
References	p. 222
Index	p. 241
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