Immaterial Facts: Freud's Discovery of Psychic Reality and Klein's Development of His Work / Edition 1

by Robert Caper

Overview

First published in 1999. Shows how Melanie Klien's studies of sexuality aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children extended and corrected Freud's theories of the development of the superego and early stages of the Oedipus complex.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415220842
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/18/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Robert Caper is a graduate of Reed College and UCLA School of Medicine. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Centre of California, and the author of A Mind of One’s Own, as well as numerous papers on psychoanalytic theory and technique.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Freud’s Discovery of Psychic Reality; Chapter 1 Immaterial Facts; Chapter 2 Psychology without a Psyche; Chapter 3 The Discovery of Unconscious Fantasy; Chapter 4 The Structure of Dreams and Neurosis; Chapter 5 Transference and the Crystallization of the Psychoanalytic Method; Chapter 6 Gravitational Confinement; Chapter 7 A Specimen Case: Little Hans; Chapter 8 Identification and the Structure of the Inner World; Chapter 9 Anxiety and the Structure of the Inner World; Chapter 10 Beyond Eros; Part 2 Melanie Klein’s Development of Freud’s Work; Chapter 11 Melanie Klein’s Place in Psychoanalysis; Chapter 12 The Method of Child Psychoanalysis; Chapter 13 The Child’s Construction of Experience; Chapter 14 Instinct, Fantasy, and Early Psychic Processes; Chapter 15 Projective Identification and the Formation of the Inner World; Chapter 16 The Transformation of the Superego: Psychological Integration and Growth; Chapter 17 The Early Stages of the Oedipus Complex; Chapter 18 Envy and Gratitude, Splitting and Integration; Chapter 19 Psychoanalytic Knowledge; Chapter 20 Freud and Klein: A Summary;

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Daniel M. Haycraft, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This is an excellent comparative study of the works of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein.
Purpose: The expressed purpose is to focus on the relationship between the work of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein, showing how Freud's work developed and Klein's work expanded on the work of Freud. These are very worthy objectives, especially for students or practitioners of psychotherapy. The author meets these objectives well.
Audience: This work will be of greatest value to students of psychology or psychoanalysis, or others interested in understanding the development of psychological theory. The author is a training and supervising psychoanalyst, with excellent credentials to support this work.
Features: The author provides a well written, detailed explanation of the development of Freud's models of the mind. He then proceeds with a similar exploration of the work of Melanie Klein, thought by many to be the greatest proponent of Freud's work. He shows Klein's work as a further development and clarification of Freud's, with support for his most fundamental ideas and disproval of those which he ultimately questioned.
Assessment: This excellent book is a well written, clear development of the process by which Freud's models evolved. The author makes an excellent comparison and contrast with the thinking of Melanie Klein, showing her work ultimately as a development and refinement of Freud's. This is an excellent text, bridging the gap between two seemingly divided philosophies.

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3 Stars from Doody