This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general
field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an
emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in
our own time. The case is made for Klein’s relevance and the
difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and
pedagogical relation. Klein’s vocabulary—the paranoid/schizoid
and depressive positions, phantasy, object relations, projective
identification, anxiety, envy, and the urge for reparation and
gratitude— are discussed in terms of their evolution and the
designs of her main questions, all stemming from the problem of
inhibition. Her contribution to an understanding of symbolization and
the shift from concrete thinking to greater freedom of mind is
analyzed. The essay develops the following questions: why is learning
an emotional situation? How did Klein’s life and larger history
influence her views? What are her central theories of mental life? Why
did Klein focus on anxiety and phantasies as making up the life of the
mind? What is object relations theory? And, what does Klein’s model
of the self proffer to contemporary education in schools and in
universities?
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ISBN
9783319260853
Publisert
2018
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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