Book
Love, Hate and Reparation
Love, Hate and Reparation (1937) brings together two lectures by Joan Riviere and Melanie Klein, written for a general audience rather than for analysts. In the first, "Hate, Greed and Aggression", Riviere traces destructive impulses back to the infant's dependence on others. In the second, "Love, Guilt and Reparation", Klein argues that guilt over harm done in phantasy to loved people gives rise to a wish to make reparation, and she follows that wish through adult love, family life, friendship, work and creative activity.
Main ideas
- Destructive impulses such as hate, greed and aggression have their roots in the infant's dependence on others (Riviere).
- Guilt over harm done in phantasy to loved people drives the wish to make reparation (Klein).
- The wish for reparation runs through love, family life, friendship, work and creativity (Klein).
- The two lectures set out psychoanalytic ideas on love and hate for a general, non-specialist audience.
What it shows
- 1937
Melanie Klein collaborated with Joan Riviere
Klein and Riviere gave the two public lectures of 1936 published together as Love, Hate and Reparation (1937): Riviere on hate, greed and aggression, Klein on love, guilt and reparation.