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  • Like Melanie Klein—she of projective identification and the baby who pushes hated aspects of himself onto the mother—Sullivan was arguing that the infant is primarily driven by a need to connect with others.

    THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

  • The term was coined by British Freudian Melanie Klein to describe how infants project destructive parts of themselves onto parental figures as a defense against reckoning with their own violent impulses.

    THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

  • And with that, a sense of entitlement is nurtured, which in turn is rooted in what the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein called constitutional envy....

    Archive 2009-05-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

  • Himself interested in the potential that psychoanalysis held for the treatment of children, Ferenczi tried to promote a similar interest in his female patients and Melanie Klein felt particularly encouraged by him.

    Melanie Klein. 2009

  • After the war he underwent analysis with Melanie Klein.

    The Making of Samuel Beckett Coetzee, J.M. 2009

  • The contrast between Freud's instinctual determinism and Nietzsche's contextualism and historicism parallels contemporary psychoanalytic debates about whether human destructiveness is to be comprehended primarily as a manifestation of an innate aggressive drive (later Freud and Melanie Klein) or primarily as a reaction to frustration (earlier Freud) or narcissistic injury (Kohut).

    Robert D. Stolorow: "Radical Evil" 2009

  • Her theory had a profound influence on Melanie Klein, who also attended the Congress.

    Sabina Spielrein. 2009

  • Melanie Klein made an original and significant contribution to twentieth-century psychoanalysis through a collection of papers published between 1921 and 1963.

    Melanie Klein. 2009

  • Her primary role in child psychology has been wrongly attributed to Anna Freud or, alternatively, to Melanie Klein.

    Sabina Spielrein. 2009

  • During her young married life Melanie Klein led a rootless, socially isolated existence in small, provincial places, and this took its toll in depression.

    Melanie Klein. 2009

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