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'''Melanie Klein''' (March 30 1882 – September 22 1960) was an Austrian [[psychoanalysis|psychotherapist]].
[[Born ]] in [[Vienna]], she built on the [[work ]] of [[Sigmund Freud]], particularly in the area of [[child psychology]]. Klein is one of the cofounders of [[object relations theory]].
Invited by Ernest [[Jones]], Melanie Klein came to [[London ]] in 1926, where she worked until her [[death ]] in 1960.
Klein's theoretical work gradually centered on a highly speculative hypothesis propounded by FreudApart from her successful introduction of triumphant [[psychoanalytic]] [[concepts]], which stated that Melanie Klein’s [[life may be ]] was [[full]] of [[tragic]] events. She was the product of an anomalyunwanted [[birth]]. Both her [[parents]] showed little affection to her. Her much loved elder sister died when she was four. Melanie was made to feel [[responsible]] for her brother’s death. Her academic studies were interrupted by [[marriage]] and [[children]]. Her marriage failed. Her son died. Her daughter, that it is drawn toward an inorganic statewell-known [[psychoanalyst]] Melitta Schmideberg, fought her openly and therefore, histrionically in an unspecified sense, contains an instinct to die. In psychological terms Eros, the sustaining British [[Psycho]]-[[analytic]] [[Society]] and uniting principle of life, is thereby postulated [[left]] to have a companion force, Thanatos, which seeks to terminate and disintegrate lifeAmerica. She neither reconciled with her [[mother]] nor attended her funeral. Melanie Klein was also clinically depressed.
Examining ultra-aggressive fantasies of hateKlein's [[theoretical]] work gradually centered on a highly speculative hypothesis propounded by [[Freud]], which stated that life may be an anomaly, envythat it is drawn toward an inorganic [[state]], and greed therefore, in very youngan unspecified [[sense]], very ill children, Melanie Klein put forth the interpretation that the human psyche is in a constant oscillation depending on whether contains an [[instinct]] to die. In [[psychological]] [[terms]] [[Eros or Thanatos is in the fore. She calls the state of the psyche]], when the sustaining and uniting [[principle ]] of life , is in dominationthereby postulated to have a companion force, [[Thanatos]], the depressive position. The psychological state corresponding which seeks to the disintegrating tendency of terminate and disintegrate life she gives the name the paranoid-schizoid position.
Examining ultra-[[aggressive]] [[fantasies]] of [[hate]], [[envy]], and greed in very young, very ill children, Melanie Klein put forth the [[interpretation]] that the [[human]] [[psyche]] is in a constant oscillation depending on whether Eros or Thanatos is in the fore. She calls the state of the psyche, when the sustaining principle of life is in domination, the depressive [[position]]. The psychological state corresponding to the disintegrating tendency of life she gives the [[name]] the [[paranoid]]-schizoid position.  Melanie Klein's [[insistence ]] on regarding [[aggression ]] as an important force in its own [[right ]] when analyzing children brought her into [[conflict ]] with [[Anna Freud]], the [[other ]] major [[child ]] psychotherapist [[working ]] in England at the [[time]]. Many controversies arose from this conflict.
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