Melanie Klein

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-12285-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 403 g

Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

To the renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein (1882;1960) was the most original innovator, male or female, in the psychoanalytic arena. Klein pioneered psychoanalytic practice with children and made major contributions to our understanding of both psychosis and autism. Along the way, she successfully introduced a new approach to the theory of the unconscious without abandoning the principles set forth by Freud. In her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, the prolific Kristeva considers Klein's life and intellectual development, weaving a narrative that covers the history of psychoanalysis and illuminates Kristeva's own life and work.

Kristeva tells the remarkable story of Klein's life: an unhappy wife and mother who underwent analysis, and without a medical or other advanced degree became an analyst herself at the age of 40. In examining her work, Kristeva proposes that Klein's "break" with Freud was really an attempt to complete his theory of the unconscious. Kristeva addresses Klein's numerous critics, and, in doing so, bridges the wide gulf between the clinical and theoretical worlds of psychoanalysis.

Klein is celebrated here as the first person to see the mother as the source of not only creativity, but of thought itself, and the first to consider the place of matricide in psychic development. As such, Klein is a seminal figure in the evolution of the provocative ideas about motherhood and the psyche for which Kristeva is most famous. Klein is thus, in a sense, a mother to Kristeva, making this book an account of the development of Kristeva's own thought as well as Klein's.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kristeva, Julia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Guberman, Ross

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Psychoanalytic Century1: Jewish Families, European Stories: A Depression and Its Aftermath2: Analyzing Her Children: From Scandal to Play Technique3: The Priority and Interiority of the Other and the Bond: The Baby Is Born with His Objects4: Anxiety or Desire: In the Beginning Was the Death Drive5: A Most Early and Tyrannical Superego6: The Cult of the Mother or an Ode to Matricide? The Parents7: The Phantasy as a Metaphor Incarnate8: The Immanence of Symbolism and Its Degrees9: From the Foreign Language to the Filigree of the Loyal and Disloyal10: The Politics of Kleinianism

Über Autor(innen)

Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Julia Kristeva is an internationally known psychoanalyst and critic and is professor of linguistics at the University of Paris VII. She is the author of many highly regarded books published by Columbia in translation, including Hannah Arendt, Strangers to Ourselves, New Maladies of the Soul, Time and Sense, and The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt.