Klein

• Klein tried to validate Freud's theories
• Biography of Melanie Klein

  • born in Vienna in 1892
  • youngest of 4 children
  • psychoanalyzed by her son Erich
  • moved to London where she practiced until her death
• Difference of Object relations theory from Freudian theory

  (1) emphasizes interpersonal relationships

  (2) stresses infant's relationship with the mother

  (3) people are motivated by human contact
• Fantasies

  • unconscious fantasy life
  • good breast and bad breast
• Objects

  • agreed with Freud that drives have an object
  • emphasizes the child's relationship with these objects
• Positions

  • infants organize their experience into positions
  • Two types: Paranoid-Schizoid and Depressive Position
• Paranoid-schizoid position - the ego splits itself

  • Two opposing feeling

  1. Desire to harbor the breast
  2. Desire to bite or destroy it