Robert M. Young Online Writings
'Melanie Klein I and II'
I was invited to deliver two introductory lectures on Klein in a series on ‘Psychoanalytic Pioneers’ sponsored by CONFER and given at the Tavistock Centre in London on 18 and 25 January 2000. In the first I outlined her personal and intellectual biography and discussed her ideas about primitive functioning, psychotic anxieties and unconscious phantasy. I appended a fairly comprehensive reading list. In the second I discussed Kleinian ideas about the Oedipus complex, projective identification and (briefly) pathological organizations. Both lectures draw on my other writings but are adapted for the occasions.