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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Melanie Klein"”.
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A comparative analysis of four types of psychotherapy used with children
… century near the beginnings of the work of Melanie Klein and Anna Freud in Europe, and the growing strength of the child guidance movement in this country.</p>
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Positioning the subject : a social psychoanalytical analysis of aggressive behaviour
… the social constructionists with that argued by Melanie Klein and her successors. It posits that a psychoanalytic perspective augments the social constructionist exploration of the emotional investments which secure a subject's positioning in discourse. The theoretical argument is illustrated …
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Η ΜΟΡΦΗ ΤΟΥ ΗΡΩΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΤΡΙΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΒΕΝΕΖΗ. ("ΤΟ ΝΟ 31328", ΓΑΛΗΝΗ ΑΙΟΛΙΚΗ ΓΗ)
… TO THE MEANINGATTRIBUTED TO THOSE TERMS BY MELANIE KLEIN. IDENTIFICATION OF THE UNIFICATION OF METAPHOR AND TRANSFORMATION OF NAMES IN THE DREAM PROCESS; EQUIVALENT TO THECONCENTRATION AND TRANSFERENCE IN THE PROCESS OF DREAM ORIGIN, ALWAYS, ACCORDING TO THE FREUDIAN POINT OF VIEW. A …
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Towards an object-relations understanding of the borderline personality
… traced from their origins in Freud and Abraham. Melanie Klein was seen to play a central role in providing key conceptual tools for understanding borderline phenomena, and pertinent aspects of her theory were presented in some detail. Modern American and European contributions were then …
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Immortal Melancholia: A Psychoanalytical Study of Byronic Heroes
… psychoanalytic theories and ideas from Melanie Klein and Silvan Tomkins. The purpose of my study is to examine how Byronic heroes, who are in a state of melancholia, deal with the losses they have suffered from.</p>
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A relação paciente-terapeuta e os resultados em psicoterapia breve
… de 1980, no ambulatório do Centro Psiquiátrico Melanie Klein, com os alunos do 2º ano do Curso de Especialização em Psiquiatria. Procurou-se observar: a) quais foram os resultados obtidos por estes pacientes em psicoterapia; b) qual foi a qualidade da relação paciente-terapeuta; c) se houve ou …
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Interpreting Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan
… analysis of primary texts by Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Jacques Lacan. Chapter One presents Freud's The interpretation of dreams (1900) as initiating a new psychoanalytic hermeneutic/interpretive epistemology, methodology, and method; explores Freud's subsequent epistemological …
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Internal Punishment: A Psychoanalytical Reading of F. M. Dostoevskyʼs Crime and Punishment (1866), L. Rebreanuʼs Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroydʼs Hawksmoor (1985)
… of psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan and Otto Rank. My psychoanalytical readings of the texts are furthermore complemented by the theoretical frameworks offered by Mikhail Bakhtinʼs theory of polyphony, Linda Hutcheonʼs account of historiographic …
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Paranoid-Schizoid, Manic Defensive Society: Kleinian Psychodynamics in Contemporary Political Culture
… to be examined via the psychodynamic work of Melanie Klein, specifically the concepts of the paranoid-schizoid position, the depressive position and the manic defences. In order to identify this, news reports of Dominic Cummings’ journey to Durham from the 22nd May 2020 to the 27th May 2020 …
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Pain, childhood, and the emotions: a cultural history c. 1870-1950
… focus on the work of psychoanalysts Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Donald Winnicott. The key findings of the thesis are: rivalry between different scientific disciplines meant that medical and scientific models of childhood pain and therapeutic treatments involved complex relationships between …
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Theatres of the Mind A Kleinian analysis of the plays of Harold Pinter
… the theories of one of Freud’s successors, Melanie Klein. The study has been undertaken through an analysis of play texts to develop a synthesis of Kleinian theory and Pinter. Klein’s work develops Freudianism by exploring the primitive building blocks of the infant’s mind. Chapter 1 …
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Neo-Victorianism and empathy : time, affect, and the ethics of reading
… Mark Currie, Marshall W. Gregory, Suzanne Keen, Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Silvan Tomkins. In contrast to the popular understanding of neoVictorianism as a genre that seeks to explore the afterlife of the Victorians, my focus is on the wide-ranging ethical and …
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The use of object relations theory in clinical social work practice : a case study
… Relations theory, specifically the works of Melanie Klein and Margaret Mahler. The method of inquiry was that of a single case study. The investigation centred around the theories' usefulness in clinical social work practice regarding: assessment, particularly in terms of the development of …
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ʼn Ondersoek na die rol van die "verwonde" kind in die werk van enkele kinder- en jeugverhaalskrywers in navolging van Alice Miller
… of his fairy tales. In his case the theories of Melanie Klein will be used to complement those of Miller. This will be done in order to examine the role of Andersen's mother and grandmother within his fairy tales. The use of Klein's work is due to Miller's rejection of Freud. Klein incorporates …
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Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf
… after Freud and Lacan. Drawing on the ideas of Melanie Klein and others who see psychic life and its relation to the world as predicating a creative act, my dissertation asserts how the representation of these mobile and aesthetic interior forces destabilize socially- and …
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Older people's experiences of recent urban re-generation: a psychosocial perspective
… The study drew on the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein and theorists in the British Object Relations tradition, as well as on the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu as a framework for exploring experiences of regeneration in terms of psychic and social, conscious and unconscious dimensions. …
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Maternal Transgressions in Contemporary Cinema
… The thesis draws on the psychoanalytic work of Melanie Klein as a key theoretical framework, and it argues that Klein is a generative (and often overlooked) point of reference for exploring the role of violence and negativity in recent cinema. I propose that Klein’s model of psychic splitting in …
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Feeding identity: The critical hermeneutics of contemporary Kleinian psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy from the perspective of a novice
… after two years of supervision in contemporary Kleinian psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, and (2) How does this communicative competence facilitate subject-forming processes with emancipatory potential? Through answering these questions, a case study of contemporary Kleinian …
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Child's Play: Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Clinic
… of Europe, child analysts like Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, D.W. Winnicott, and John Bowlby reinvented clinical practice for the child patient according to explicitly political idioms. The analytic exercise of paternal "authority," the cultivation of maternal “reparations,” and the maternal …