Why Read Klein? The Importance of Melanie Klein's work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis [Hardcover]

01. A brief overview of Melanie Kleins Work: coming to terms with the souls wounds? 02. The Kleinian enlightenment project: making the invisible visible? 03. The Kleinian enlightenment project: making the invisible visible? 04.?Unconscious phantasy: Contemporary readings? 05.?The archaic in Klein? 06. The paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions: the movement of the mind? 07.?The feminine position: a theory on femininity and masculinity? 08.?Envy and gratitude: some notes? 09.?Projective identification: technical developments? 10.?Reflections from and beyond Melanie Klein

Why Read Klein? explores the importance of Melanie Kleins work to contemporary psychoanalysis, her contributions as a key early psychoanalyst and continued influence on contemporary psychoanalysts.

'We should see Melanie Klein's thought as an open work. It is a work that reinvents itself with each encounter with contemporary thought, fertilizing it and thus continuing to inspire new perspectives and sow new concepts derived from a deep understanding of her ideas. It is not a matter of accepting or rejecting her in its entirety, but of taking her ideas as a rich model of the functioning of the psychic apparatus. In her work, the process of acquiring knowledge has become a concept with metapsychological status and has been incorporated into most contemporary psychoanalytic theories.'

Elisabeth da Rocha Barros and Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros, training and supervising analysts and docents at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of S?o Paulo (SBPSP); and fellows of the British Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Why Read Klein? explores the importance of Melanie Kleins work to contemporary psychoanalysis, her contributions as a key early psychoanalyst, and continued influence on contemporary psychoanalysts.