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
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.
creativity roots phases
The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.
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.
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.
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.