Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1 is the first of two volumes of collected essays devoted to developments in psychoanalysis based on the work of Melanie Klein. The papers are arranged into four groups: the analysis of psychotic patients, projective identification, on thinking, and pathalogical organisation.

Elizabeth Bott Spillius

Acknowledgements. Bott Spillius, General Introduction. Part One: The Analysis of Psychotic Patients. Introduction. Notes on the Psychoanalysis of the Superego Conflict of an Acute Schizophrenic Patient. Depression in the Schizophrenic. Differentiation of the Psychotic from the Non-psychotic Personalities. Part Two: Projective Identification. Introduction. Attacks on Linking. The Relation of Anal Masturbation to Projective Identification. Contribution to the Psychopathology of Psychotic States: The Importance of Projective Identification in the Ego Structure and the Object Relations of the Psychotic Patient. Projective Identification - Some Clinical Aspects. Part Three: On Thinking. Introduction. Notes on Symbol Formation. A Theory of Thinking. The Experience of the Skin in Early Object-relations. Part Four: Pathological Organizations. Introduction. Schizoid Phenomena in the Borderline. Terror, Persecution, Dread - A Dissection of Paranoid Anxieties. A Clinical Approach to the Psychoanalyttic Theory of the Life and Death Instincts: An Investigation into the Aggressive Aspects of Narcissism. Cruelty and Narrowmindedness. Narcissistic Organization, Projective Identification, and the Formation of the Identificate. A Clinical Study of a Defensive Organization. Addiction to Near-death. The Interplay between Pathological Organizations and the Paranoid-schozoid and Depressive Positions. References to General Introduction and Other Introductory Material. Name Index. Subject Index.