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The Psychological Principles of Early Analysis
Die psychologischen Grundlagen der Frühanalyse
Copyright Life + 70 years In copyright The last author or translator died in 1960; protected through 2030.United States Public domain Published in 1926; public domain since 2022.
Melanie Klein's 1926 paper in Imago sets out the principles on which her play technique with small children rests. She treats a young child's play as a symbolic expression of phantasies, wishes and experiences, comparable to the dream, and holds that it can therefore be interpreted in the way free associations are interpreted in the analysis of adults. On the evidence of analyses of very young children, she argues that Oedipal tendencies and a severe superego appear much earlier in development than psychoanalysis had assumed. The paper appeared in English in 1927 in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis as "The Psychological Principles of Infant Analysis".
- Published
- 1926
- In
- Imago 12 (1926), Heft 2/3, pp. 365–376
- Language
- German