Encounters with Melanie Klein
Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
Published on 7. August 2007
264 pages
978-1-134-11084-1 (ISBN)
Description
In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius 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.
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regards as the important features of Kleinian thought and discusses the research she has carried out in Melanie Klein's unpublished archive, including Klein's views on projective identification.
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.
This book represents fifty years of the developing thought and scholarship of a talented and dedicated psychoanalyst.
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regards as the important features of Kleinian thought and discusses the research she has carried out in Melanie Klein's unpublished archive, including Klein's views on projective identification.
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.
This book represents fifty years of the developing thought and scholarship of a talented and dedicated psychoanalyst.
Reviews / Votes
"This is a fine book, both as a refreshing and illuminating account of Melanie Klein's thinking, and as an expression of Elizabeth Spillius's own attitudes to and work in psychoanalysis" - Michael Brearley, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, (2008) 89"This fascinating, absorbing book is as much about how Elizabeth Spillius integrates her original discipline of anthropology into her thinking and practice as an analyst as it is about the theoretical contribution of Melanie Klein... I would recommend this book to any reader interested in the original works of Melanie Klein and the development of her theory, which would seem to confirm the richness of her original model." - Karen Stobart, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 53, 2008 "This is a fine book, both as a refreshing and illuminating account of Melanie Klein's thinking, and as an expression of Elizabeth Spillius's own attitudes to and work in psychoanalysis" - Michael Brearley, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, (2008) 89
"This fascinating, absorbing book is as much about how Elizabeth Spillius integrates her original discipline of anthropology into her thinking and practice as an analyst as it is about the theoretical contribution of Melanie Klein... I would recommend this book to any reader interested in the original works of Melanie Klein and the development of her theory, which would seem to confirm the richness of her original model." - Karen Stobart, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 53, 2008
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Reflowable
File size
0,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-11084-1 (9781134110841)
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Elizabeth Spillius | Priscilla Roth | Richard Rusbridger
Encounters with Melanie Klein
Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
Book
06/2007
Routledge
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Elizabeth Spillius | Priscilla Roth | Richard Rusbridger
Encounters with Melanie Klein
Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
Book
06/2007
Routledge
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Elizabeth Spillius trained originally in psychology and anthropology and then at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis.
Content
Roth, Rusbridger, Preface. Spillius, General Introduction. Part 1: From Anthropology to Psychoanalysis. Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Concordance. Kleinian Thought: Overview and Personal View. Part 2: In Melanie Klein's Archive. Introduction: The Archive. Melanie Klein Revisited: Her Unpublished Thoughts on Technique. Melanie Klein on the Past. Projective Identification: Back to the Future. Part 3: Interaction of Ideas and Clinical Work. Clinical Reflections on the Negative Therapeutic Reaction. Varieties of Envious Experience. Freud and Klein on the Concept of Phantasy. Developments in Kleinian Technique. Recognition of Separateness and Otherness.
