British Object Relations
September 20, 2024 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Classroom Three
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Third Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2024-25, Fall Term — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Matthew Brooks, LICSW, FIPA
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September 20, 2024 — Kleinian psychopathology
[22 pages]
Klein spent her career building a metapsychology based on unconscious phantasy, the role of aggression, and the constant movement of the psyche among its various positions. Her ideas have proved especially useful in understanding severe mental illnesses and personality disorders. Here she examines problems related to excessive or rigid splitting, primitive projection, denial and psychosis. In this paper she offers her ideas about W.R.D. Fairbairn, a Scottish analyst and her contemporary, who was instrumental in establishing object relations as a theory but who radically de-emphasized aggression and drives.
Hanna Segal, one of Klein’s students, applied Klein’s theories to such diverse areas as aesthetics, war, and art, but was principally known for clarifying Klein’s concepts. The chapter we read today is from a collection of Segal’s lectures on Klein to candidates at the London Institute.
Klein, M. (1946). Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 27:99-110.
Segal, H. (1973). Ch7, “Manic Defences” in Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein, pp82-91.
