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The term ‘paranoid-schizoid position’ refers to a constellation of anxieties, defences and internal and external object relations that Klein considers to be characteristic of the earliest months of an infant’s life and to continue to a greater or lesser extent into childhood and adulthood.
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The definitive paper in which the ‘paranoid-schizoid’...
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Extending and developing Sigmund Freud’s ideas, Klein drew...
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In object relations theory, the paranoid-schizoid position is a state of mind of children, from birth to four or six months of age. Melanie Klein [2] has described the earliest stages of infantile psychic life in terms of a successful completion of development through certain positions .
Who's afraid of Melanie Klein? Well, not you after this video. We'll dive into Klein's concepts of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive position, while causa...
The Paranoid-Schizoid Position. Klein (1946) called the developmental stage of the first four to six months the paranoid-schizoid position. Rooted in primal phantasy, Klein’s infant is far darker and more persecuted than the Freudian pleasure-seeking narcissist.
Klein proposed two main positions or psychological states that individuals oscillate between throughout their lives, the earliest being the paranoid-schizoid position fueled by aggressive...
