Object Relations: Melanie Klein Pt. 5

Blog: https://psychreviews.org/object-relations-melanie-klein-pt-5/

From the beginning, for Melanie, desire is operating in the infant. Desire is about gratification, but it's also about learning and mastering an environment to make gratification stable and reliable.

Intro: 0:00
Early Coping and Development: 0:24
School challenges: 6:20
Trading Up: 19:50
Ego integration: 22:24
From Symbolism to Gratification: 46:00

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Resources:

Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Works 1921-1945 (The Writings of Melanie Klein, Volume 1) by Melanie Klein: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780743237659/

The New Dictionary of Kleinian Thought by Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Jane E. Milton, Penelope Garvey, Cyril Couve, Deborah Steiner: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780415592598/

The Language of Psychoanalysis - Jean Laplanche: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780367328139/

The Scope of Psychoanalysis - Franz Gabriel Alexander: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781199363497/

JONES, E. (1918), THE THEORY OF SYMBOLISM. British Journal of Psychology, 1904-1920, 9: 181-229.

Solo: the biography of Solomon - Bryan Crimp: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781904331360/