Melanie Klein Essays

Melanie Klein: Known as the "Mother of object Relations theory", was born in Vienna, Austria. this Austrian- British psychoanalyst had a huge impact on child psychology and developmental psychology with her innovation of "play therapy" technique and Object Relations theory. She initially was ambitious about attending medical school but after getting married and setteling with her husband in Budapest, she began studying with psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi. she then came up with "play therapy" which

The characters in the dystopian world of Fahrenheit 451 rely heavily on technology to provide entertainment, transportation, and social interactions. Guy Montag, a firefighter who burns books and houses in the novel, usually complies to what society considers normal. His everyday routine shows how immersed he is in the technology around him. The descriptions of the air-propelled trains, an entire room where the walls are made of television screens, and inescapable advertisements are very prominent

February 9th, 1964: The Beatles took the world by storm by making their debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show”. The popular rock group included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They’ve changed the world with their music and became the best selling band in history. The Beatles are one of the most influential music groups impacting the world in more ways than one. The Beatles were considered political activists by using their music as a way to talk about issues happening in the

Rock and roll music culture has affected the world we live in today in both positive and negative ways. It has changed the black and white racial barrier and the views on people’s emotions, but it has also negatively affected drug use and some behaviours of others. Rock and roll music culture started as a very small and non harmful thing and it eventually became a popular topic within the media. Slowly, the ways of others began to change as results of listening to rock and roll. They passed these

American novel deals in depth with the theme of Greed as an aspect of human conscience crisis which leads to dilemma, problems, and predicament for human being. Novels such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth, Henry James’s Washington Square , Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery, and others expose clear image for the theme of Greed and its implications. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the human predicament of Americans in 1920s

Oxford Dictionaries defines personhood as “the quality or condition of being an individual person” (Oxford Dictionaries). This denotation implies that in order to be considered a person, one must be more than a human being; one must be an individual. This then begs the question of what designates a human as an individual. The question of personhood is addressed in Italian author Primo Levi’s autobiography If This is a Man, which recounts his fight for survival in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz

Have you ever heard the names, Miep Gies, Irena Sendler, and Gerda Weissmann Klein? If not, you should have because these were some of the most influential women during the Holocaust. These three women fought against the harsh Nazi Germany party to free jews, provided assistance to the many Jewish ghettos, and told their own story of being in the hands of the Nazis. Miep Gies, Irena Sendler, and Gerda Weissmann Klein were some of the most influential people of the Holocaust due to their heroic actions

The book that I picked for my project was “All But My Life” and was written by Gerda Weissmann Klein during World War II. The book “All But My Life” is a book about a young girl who had to go through the hardships of life of a Jew during the Holocaust. That young girl’s name was Gerda Weissmann, and before the war she had a mother, a father, and a brother but after the war, they were all gone. Throughout the war she made friends and kept on holding on to hope and, life itself. Those friends she made

Inhumane In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme man's inhumanity man relates to cruelty by calling them names, treating them horribly, and making them look the same. Even the Jews in the same barracks fight each other for food, and some people suffocate because they are laying on top of each other. In this quote “Faster you swine”(Wiesel 91). This quote shows the reader how the Nazis treated the Jews when they are marching to Gleiwitz. The barracks the Jews stayed in were unsanitary and

On October 19, monday It was definitely ladies night at the ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards. American actresss Melanie Griffith brought along her leading ladies to the star-studded event, her actress mother Tippi Hedren, 85-year-old, and daughters Dakota Johnson, 26-year-old who starred in Fifty Shades Of Grey and Stella Banderas, 19-year-old. The three generations of women coordinated their red carpet look in elegant black ensembles as they arrived at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. 58-year-old

experiences with important caregivers in life. Freud originally brought the word ‘Object’ in to the conversation of psychoanalytic theory. Later theorist Fairbairn and Klein would also work along these same lines using Object. Freud’s object could be anything; a person’s object could be a ball, a truck, an animal or a caregiver. Melanie Klein never considered her theories

DEFINITION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC MODEL The psychodynamic model of the human mind can be defines as a methodical or organised study and psychological theory that lie beneath human behaviour, which lays emphasis on the inner play between the unconscious and the conscious mind. This model is ultimately as a result of Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory. Freud’s theory stated that the mind consists of three vital parts which are the conscious, subconscious and the unconscious which all together formed what he

Developmental Theories Psychoanalytic was first discovered by Sigmund Freud which is a close look at the unconscious drives that make people do certain things or act a certain way. Freud was always talking about the way the mind worked because he believed our minds are responsible for the things we do weather we are conscious or unconscious. There are three characteristics according to Freud that made up a persons personality which are: The Id, ego, and the super ego.  The Id is the part of the

everyday struggle that everyone faces. According to Rivkin and Ryan who state, “Unlike Freud, object relations theorists consider the ego to be a major part of personality” (392). Furthermore, another object relations theorists in their essay, Melanie Klein believes that the “child constructing a world for itself through fantasies allow it to distinguish its destructive from its affectionate feelings through

Introduction: Through studies of various Models of Counselling, therapists are able to gain knowledge on how to determine client growth and where and when certain therapies are applicable. Through investigation of theoretical aspects of talking therapies Feltham has explained how therapists are able to not only treat a patient according to known counselling models but are also able to explore avenues that that have not previously been explored. This summary will provide an abridged view of the

Phenomena’ by Donald Winnicott, published in 1953. I am going to evaluate of the main ideas and arguments inside and outside the context. To begin with, Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) was an English paediatrician who studied psychoanalysis under Melanie Klein, a highly influential psychoanalyst in the 20th century. Winnicott became a child analyst in 1935 and a full member of the British Psychoanalytic Society. In the piece that I am going to examine, he introduces and develops the concepts of –what

The Oedipus Complex In The Light Of Early Anxieties Priya Venkataraman (Page 370 to 397) In this paper Melanie Klein presents the case of 10-year-old Richard to illustrate her theory about how early anxieties in children contribute to the Oedipus complex. The material presented is from six analytic hours with Richard. She describes him as “a precocious and gifted child” who was interested in nature (only its pleasant aspects). However, he faced difficulty at school, was fearful of children and so

Historical Origins The major development of contextual therapy was begun by Ivan Boszormanyi-Nagy with contributions by Geraldine Spark and other colleagues beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the mid-1980s. Boszormanyi-Nagy continued the development of aspects of the theory throughout the rest of his life until his death in 2007. The main original text of contextual therapy is Invisible Loyalties, which was published in 1973 (Boszormanyi-Nagy & Spark, 1973). This text articulated

The aspects that create a personality are built up upon two main guidances: family influence at a young age and inner conflicts. Balancing on a thin thread of neuro-normality and insanity, a personality is subjected to treatment that affects the individual’s view of life and the people around them. In the case of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, there were two main characters that displayed these aspects with much adversity: Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. Both beginning from contrasting backgrounds

This method combines questions of a biographical nature through semi-structured questions, the psychoanalytic elements of Klein embedded within, in order to elicit a narrative from the subject of the study. The first interview is done to begin the narrative, a follow-up interview is done as well in order to add clarification if necessary but also to add in Kleinian elements