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Summary Critical Analysis of Melanie Klein's Object Relations Theory
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Melanie Klein – Psychodynamic Branch in PsychoanalysisCritical Analysis of her theory:
– What are the main theoretical arguments?
– How does the theory address, explain or help us understand child
development (e.g., development of OVC or children in CHH, or
role of parenting in child development)? A critical analysis is
expected.
– What recommendations can you make for theory, research or
intervention based on the theory & application?
Background: Mother of Psychoanalysis
Focus moved towards the child caused a lot of divisions within the field.
Austria born (like Freud)
Believed her birth was unplanned and unwanted (her own experiences)
- Relationship with her mother was complicated
- Complicated family/childhood led to her own self-analysis
Became an analysist though undergoing psychoanalysis.
Later moved & practiced in London
Later competition with own daughter
Opposition Anna Freud
Premises of her work:
Importance placed on 4-6 months of age unlike Freud who looks at the first 5
years of life being important.
, Intra Psychic world- Internal world of the baby that impacts adult experiences.
Infants physiological life = stimulus for later cognitive/mental functioning
Instincts, drives (like Freud) BUT PHANTASY
– Through phantasy (play) insight into 1st relationships
Children expresses unconscious wishes through play.
Through play therapy, reduce depressive anxieties and
persecutory fears, encourages re-experiencing of early emotions
and separates the unconscious and conscious.
– Infant relation to breast = prototype for future relationships
Method: Observation on children and the worked backwards (Play Phantasy)
unpack unconscious relationships, instincts and drives to understand the
impact of the first few months of life.
- Looks at the breast as an object and how they relate to the breast
as a first relationship prototype for future relationships.
Primary Klein Theory:
1. Object Relations Theory:
- Human CONTACT & relationships primary motive/drive
- Internal stages world of emotion (instincts)
- Play therapy = working through unconscious conflicts
- Self-other configurations = in phantasy play we reconstruct these
object-relations (contact with the breast? Differs from her own
experiences)
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