Melanie Klein (née Reizes; 30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960) was an Austrian-British author and psychoanalyst known for her work in child analysis. She...

phallus) was central to infantile and adult psychosexual development, Melanie Klein concentrated on the early maternal relationship, proposing that Oedipal...

to the field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology...

share the cause of their suffering with others. In 1963, psychoanalyst Melanie Klein provided an interpretation of Cassandra as representing the human moral...

theory of Melanie Klein pivoted around the importance of love and hate, concern for and destruction of others, from infancy onwards. Klein stressed the...

castrated by her father. The desire for a child also becomes masochistic. Melanie Klein, originator of the Kleinian school of psychoanalysis, agreed with the...

The term reparation was used by Melanie Klein (1921) to indicate a psychological process of making mental repairs to a damaged internal world. In object...

predominantly adopted and exploited by Melanie Klein. After Freud, "the most important contribution has come from Melanie Klein, whose work enlightens the idea...

him. Her work influenced such notable psychoanalysts as Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Jean Berges and Gabriel Balbo. Hug-Hellmuth was born into a Catholic...

present context. Subsequent psychoanalysts such as Jacques Lacan and Melanie Klein have defended the concept. The standard edition of Freud's works in...