PSYC 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Object Relations Theory, Melanie Klein, Karen Horney
30 Mar 2016
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Adores her older brother and father: both of these individuals pass away. She accounts their passing to her relationship failures. She raised her son according to psychoanalysis principles. Entered therapy with ferenczi (in freud"s circle) after mother"s death. Klein introduced child psychoanalysis = play therapy. Her son hans committed suicide at age 22: she blames her mother. Regards herself as a freudian, but she could not be a part of the freudian circle. Established kleinian school, which challenged anna freud"s school. Less emphasis on biological drives= more on interpersonal relationships. Human behavior is motivated by human contact/relatedness, rather than sex. We have a drive to be with others. Emphasized the first five months of life. Children have a very active fantasy life including good and bad memories. Children have the ability, by instinct, to make psychic representations of what is around them. (good rain, bad rain) Internal objects have a power of their own (schemas)
