Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context [Paperback]

Meira Likierman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0826457703 | ISBN-13: 978-0826457707

Melanie Klein remains one of the most important and influential figures in psychoanalysis. Klein pioneered the analysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis.Meira Likierman's study is the best available introduction to Melanie Klein's thought and work.

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"Klein has been quoted but she has never, until Likierman's book been properly read. This book reveals with patient lucidity just what is fascinating about Klein as a psychoanalytic theorist. It recovers her work, in other words, from the sentimentality and moralism in which her so-called followers have buried her. Likierman's Klein is a Klein for a new generation of readers."-Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored

"A useful corrective. Likierman's volume is an intellectual biography, more balanced than Phyllis Grosskurth's....For the most part chronologically organized, it describes Klein's ideas in an integrated, coherent way, using the intellectual context of Klein's works to elucidate meaning otherwise painstakingly rendered from the originals."--Choice, November 2001

About the Author

Meira Likierman is a senior staff member at the Tavistock Clinic where she has been leader of the Psychoanalytic Studies MA program and the Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She is a Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Continuum (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826457703
• ISBN-13: 978-0826457707
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #843,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable, November 18, 2007

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This review is from: Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context (Paperback)

Meira Likierman provides an excellent companion book to anybody interested in the work and life of Melanie Klein. Likierman provides a lucid overeview of Klein's main theoretical views and concepts. More importantly, she puts Klein in perspective by providing the context within which Klein conceived her views and elaborated on them. Specifically, Likierman provides insights on Klein's life, as well as on how Klein was influenced by her mentors Ferenczi and Abrahams, how she differed to both Sigmund and Anna Freud and how her thought evolved over the years. Indispensable to anyone attempting to grasp Kleinian thought.