The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 1992
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 2549
- ISBN 13 : 9780415082747
- ISBN 10 : 0415082749
Reviews and Endorsements
Following the arrival in England of Freud, Anna Freud and some of their Viennese colleagues in 1938 and the death of Freud in 1939, the radical theories of Melanie Klein were the subject of prolonged controversy and fierce debate within the British Psychoanalytic Society. In the midst of, or as a result of, the personal animosities and political manoeuvrings, important intellectual contributions were made, and practical decisions taken, which were to affect the development of psychoanalysis down to the present day. The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45 offers the first complete record of the debate, including all relevant papers and correspondence, based on previously closed archive material.
"The best book on the history of psychoanalysis" - André Green
"An exemplary research" - Julia Kristeva