Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein
Melanie Reizes Kleinwas an Austrian-British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that influenced child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis. She was a leading innovator in object relations theory...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth30 March 1882
CountryAustria
hands hatred anxiety
It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.
life-and-death anxiety instinct
the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.
powerful emotion young
It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.
life mother baby
Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.
baby hate mind
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
baby ambition ambitious
The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.
children reality years
Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.
yoga self mind
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
motivational heart journey
God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey.
creativity roots phases
The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.
children interesting beginners
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
austrian-psychologist believe ego external incapable internal object splitting taking within
I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object - internal and external - without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego.