Article
The Development of a Child
Eine Kinderentwicklung
Copyright Life + 70 years In copyright The last author or translator died in 1960; protected through 2030.United States Public domain Published in 1921; public domain since 2017.
Melanie Klein's first published paper, which appeared in Imago in 1921. She had presented part of it to the Hungarian Psycho-Analytical Society in 1919. The paper follows a young boy, called "Fritz", as he is given a frank and careful sexual enlightenment. Klein records his questions and anxieties, and the inhibitions that eased once his curiosity was answered. These observations led her toward the psychoanalysis of children. An English version, "The Development of a Child", came out in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis in 1923.
- Published
- 1921
- In
- Imago 7 (1921), Heft 3, pp. 251–309
- Language
- German