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.
Influence
Lineage
- 1936 analysed by Melanie Klein
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.
Affinity
- 1955 collaborated with Melanie Klein
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.
Works
- 1955
New Directions in Psycho-Analysis is a collection edited by Melanie Klein, Paula Heimann and Roger Money-Kyrle and published by Tavistock Publications in London in 1955 to mark Klein's seventieth birthday. It gathers original papers by Klein, her close colleagues and pupils, and others influenced by her ideas, and its subtitle names the theme that joins them: the bearing of the conflicts of infancy on the patterns of adult behaviour. The first part holds clinical and theoretical papers; the second applies Kleinian ideas beyond the consulting room, to art, literature, society and ethics. Klein herself contributes two papers: "The Psycho-Analytic Play Technique", and "On Identification", which reads Julian Green's novel If I Were You as a study of projective identification. The book was reprinted by Karnac in 1993.
References
- New Directions in Psycho-Analysis: The Significance of Infant Conflict in the Pattern of Adult Behaviour1955Evidence for a relation