Who's afraid of Melanie Klein? Well, hopefully not you after this episode. We talk about Melanie Klein's ideas surrounding the life and death instinct, the paranoid-schizoid position, and depressive position.

This is the audio version from the YouTube video, which I recommend watching for helpful graphics here: https://youtu.be/DnT8o1DF0VE

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RESOURCES mentioned
Klein's Biography: https://melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/timeline/
Object Relations Theory: https://youtu.be/Qt1bNJR5cp8?si=LQIO23ZC81QOSYU-
Psychoanalysis of Dwight Schrute: https://youtu.be/Xjbzbe0ubqU?si=fFxDeioffbWzP3Im
Kleinian case study: https://aeon.co/essays/my-dismal-years-in-psychoanalysis-with-melanie-kleins-disciple

LITERATURE
Klein, Melanie: "Love, Guilt, and Reparation and other works 1921-1945"
Klein, Melanie: "Envy and Gratitude"
Segal, Hanna: "Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein"
Mitchell, Stephen A.; Black, Margaret J.: Freud and Beyond.
Guntrip, Harry: Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy, and the Self.