Person
Roger Money-Kyrle
British psychoanalyst and philosopher (1898–1980). He studied at Cambridge and in Vienna, and was analysed in turn by Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein. He became a training analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. With Klein and Paula Heimann he edited New Directions in Psycho-Analysis (1955), a key statement of Kleinian thought. His own writing applied psychoanalysis to ethics, politics and the theory of knowledge.
Read more- Born
- 1898
- Died
- 1980
- Influenced by
- Melanie Klein
analysed by
- Melanie Klein 1936 Money-Kyrle had been analysed by Jones and by Freud. He entered analysis with Klein in 1936 and became one of the leading Kleinians of the British Society.
collaborated with
- Melanie Klein 1955 Money-Kyrle co-edited New Directions in Psycho-Analysis (1955) with Klein and Heimann. The collection gathered Kleinian papers on clinical work and on the application of psychoanalysis to society and culture.