Melanie Klein- Psychoanalysis

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Melanie Klein was born the 30 of March of 1882 in Vienna. In 1918, Melanie Klein attends the International 5º Psychoanalytic Congress, with the presidency of Ferenczi, in which S. Freud reads “Lines of Advances in Psychoanalytic Therapy”. This Congress made in the days of war causes a strong impression in Klein and according to herself remembers: “that impression fortified my desire to dedicate me to the psychoanalysis.(Grosskurth, 1986) During the analysis with Ferenczi, this one I am called the attention about my great dowries to understand to the children and of my interest in them and encouraged much my idea to dedicate itself to the analysis of children (...) I have not seen (...) that the education could cover the totality with the understanding of the personality and that, therefore, it has the influence that one would wish that it had. I always felt that behind there was something never gets to perceive.”(Grosskurth, 1986) Ferenczi assigns like assistant of Anton Von to it Freud in the task of organizing the education of the psychoanalysis in the Society of Infantile Investigation. (Grosskurth, 1986). For major Klein's contribution to psychology was the technique of analyzing children's play insight into to their emotional development. Her research guided to her to conclude that children's aggressive feelings toward to mother and interpersonal relationships on development were further important than Sigmund Freud had thought. According to her biographer Phyllis Grosskurth, from Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work, Harvard Univ Press, 1986: “Captivated by the concept of the unconscious, she followed its seductive lure into speculative depths from which even Freud had retreated.”(Grosskurth,1986). After the First World War, Klein developed the play technique, which is used now worldwide. As substitute of free union of Freud, which the very
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