Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826457703 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is a Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University. . Meira Likierman is a senior staff member at the Tavistock Clinic where she has been leader of the Psychoanalytic Studies MA program and the Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
"Klein has been quoted but she has never, until Likierman's book been properly read. It recovers her work, in other words, from the sentimentality and moralism in which her so-called followers have buried her. Likierman's Klein is a Klein for a new generation of readers."-Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored"A useful corrective. Likierman's volume is an intellectual biography, more balanced than Phyllis Grosskurth's.For the most part chronologically organized, it describes Klein's ideas in an integrated, coherent way, using the intellectual context of Klein's works to elucidate meaning otherwise painstakingly rendered from the originals."—Choice, November 2001 . This book reveals with patient lucidit
Klein pioneered the analysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis.Meira Likierman's study is the best available introduction to Melanie Klein's thought and work.. Melanie Klein remains one of the most important and influential figures in psychoanalysis