Immaterial Facts: Freud's Discovery Of Psychic Reality And Klein's Development Of His Work

Immaterial Facts: Freud's Discovery of Psychic Reality and Klein's Development of His Work

In Immaterial Facts Dr. Caper shows how Melanie Klein's studies of sexuality, aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children both extended and corrected Freud's theories of the early development of the superego and the early stages of the Oedipus complex in both boys and girls. Klein's development of Freud's work has allowed psychoanalysts not only to achieve deeper and more stable therapeutic results with neurotic patients, but also to begin to extend the therapeutic scope of psychoanalysis into the area of more severe emotional disturbances. Immaterial Facts will prove useful both to professionals and students interested in the treatment of emotional disturbances and the functioning of the mind.