Beyond Freudian metapsychology. The metapsychological points of view of the Kleinian School

This paper deals with the term 'metapsychology' and its different usages, especially emphasizing the concept of 'point of view' in order to stress its epistemological importance. Two metapsychological areas are then suggested, each with different contents. After an enumeration an...

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Published inInternational journal of psychoanalysis Vol. 65 ( Pt 4); p. 389
Main Authors De Bianchedi, E T, Antar, R, De Podetti, M R, De Píccolo, E G, Miravent, I, De Cortiñas, L P, De Boschan, L T, Waserman, M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 1984
Subjects
Attitude to Death
Consciousness
Ego
Fantasy
Freudian Theory
Humans
Object Attachment
Personality Development
Psychoanalytic Theory
Unconscious (Psychology)
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Summary:This paper deals with the term 'metapsychology' and its different usages, especially emphasizing the concept of 'point of view' in order to stress its epistemological importance. Two metapsychological areas are then suggested, each with different contents. After an enumeration and brief analysis of the main hypotheses of the Kleinian school, and applying the aforementioned distinction, the following points of view, contained in the Kleinian developments, are put forward and explained; namely, the positional, the economic policy, the dramatic and the spatial points of view.
ISSN:0020-7578