Psychoanalysis After Freud: Klein and Object Relations

The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained the family home untilAnna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freudsstudy, preserved just as it was during his lifetime.

Freud Museum London

A one day intensive course with Dr Keith Barrett.

Keith Barrett BA PhD
Melanie Klein was a pioneer of child psychoanalysis whose radically new way of working with children brought her into sharp conflict with Freud’s daughter Anna – also a pioneer in the field. But ultimately her understanding of infancy and childhood, derived from her work with her young patients (as well as with adults), enabled her to create a powerful new version of psychoanalytic theory that took psychoanalysis completely beyond Freud, and marked the beginning of the Object Relations school. We will explore Klein’s profound vision of the human condition, and examine the related work of Ronald Fairbairn and Wilfred Bion.
Course layout
:Session 1: We will explore the different approaches of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein to the psychoanalysis of children, and study Klein’s psychoanalytic play technique which sees children’s play as representing (and therefore communicating) their emotional conflicts and anxieties in symbolic form.
Session 2: We will explore Klein’s mature theory of the human condition, examining her principal ideas, including her theories of the ‘paranoid-schizoid position’, the ‘depressive position’, the ‘manic defences’, reparation, and the fundamental importance of envy and gratitude. 
Session 3: We will explore the application of Kleinian insights to the understanding of society and art, and review the position of Kleinian psychoanalysis today. We also relate Klein’s work to the contributions of two of her most important and creative psychoanalytic contemporaries: Ronald Fairbairn and Wilfred Bion.

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