The Oedipus Complex Today: Clinical Implications - Hardcover

Britton, Ronald; Feldman, Michael; O'Shaughnessy, Edna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367099608 ISBN 13: 9780367099602

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

A collection of papers focusing on the Kleinian conception of the Oedipus complex, how this is now understood, and what effect it has had on clinical practice. The papers by the authors which form the greater part of The Oedipus Complex Today were originally given at the Melanie Klein Conference on the Oedipus Complex in September 1987 at University College, London. The conference, jointly organized by Professor J. Sandler of the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College and Mrs. Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm on behalf of the Melanie Klein Trust, was considered such a successful statement of modern Kleinian views on the subject that the Trust has decided to present the papers in book form, together with an expanded version of the introduction by Dr Hanna Segal, and also a reprint of Melanie Klein's 1945 paper 'The Oedipus Complex in the Light of Early Anxieties'. The three papers, writes Dr Segal, 'are based on central concepts first put forward by Mrs Klein.

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About the Author:

Ronald Britton

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0367099608
• ISBN 13: 9780367099602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 158
• Editor: Steiner John