Melanie Klein - 9783319260839

Melanie KleinEarly Analysis, Play, and the Question of Freedom\nAuthor(s): Deborah P. Britzman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783319260839, 978-3319260839\nSynopsis\nThis volumeintroduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Kleins relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation. Kleins vocabularythe paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions, phantasy, object relations, projective identification, anxiety, envy, and the urge for reparation and gratitude arediscussed in terms of their evolution and the designs of her main questions, all stemming from the problem of inhibition. Her contribution to an understanding of symbolization and the shift from c?