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The Collected Works of Melanie Klein: Volume III: "Envy and Gratitude" and Other Works 1946-1963

Author(s) : Melanie Klein

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Publisher : Routledge
Published : June 2025
Cover : Hardback
Pages : 376
Category :
Forthcoming
Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 39428
ISBN 13 : 9781782205371

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This book is Melanie Klein's last major theoretical work. It proposes that envy and gratitude are opposing and interacting feelings normally operative from birth and that the first object of envy is the feeding breast. It throws new light on the negative therapeutic reaction, the effect of envy.

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Melanie Klein was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had an impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis. She was a leading innovator in theorizing object relations theory, and remains one of the most important figures in psychoanalytical theory and practice.

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