PSY 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Melanie Klein, Erik Erikson, Donald Winnicott
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Erik erikson and development of lifespan: erikson (1902-94) focused on freud"s theory, embracing his basic psychosexual concept, thus extending the theory into further stages of maturity, thus supporting the notion of lifespan. Similar to freud, he saw creation as the product of conflicts; the essence of their resolution could be more or less adaptive at any point. Erikson"s theory was a psychosocial one that saw the ego not only as a mediator within the mind of the person, but under cultural control as an aggressive promoter of progress. Influential works by erikson include childhood and culture (1968) and identity, Object relations: melanie klein (1882-1960) was an important figure in the object relations field of psychoanalysis from the 1920s until the mid-twentieth century. She was active at the british psychoanalytic institute in educating therapists, and discussed the potential for early failure for later psychopathology. In the kleinian sense, a "source" is a loved thing or, especially, a human.
