Affects and Positions: Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Ruth Stein
Keyword(s):  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Wilfred Bion

scholarly journals Do vínculo às relações sociais: Aspectos psicodinâmicos

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Aragão Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Wilfred Bion

Sobre o tema da vinculação, são abordados os domínios das problemáticas associadas às relações precoces, à representação dos processos de vinculação nas diversas etapas desenvolvimentais e às relações psicológicas inerentes à formação de diferentes sistemas sociais, enquadrados no jogo dinâmico criado pelos, e para os seus representantes individuais. Num primeiro momento desenvolve-se mais pormenorizadamente o conceito de vínculo, considerando excepcionalmente os contributos de Bowlby, e as suas diferenciações quanto às abordagens de Freud e da psicanálise tradicional.Consideram-se então, entre outros, os trabalhos de Melanie Klein sobre os fenómenos de comunicação corporal, organizados numa fase muito precoce de desenvolvimento,e as vicissitudes dos relacionamentos objectais, constituídos por angústias, emoções, fantasias e defesas psíquicas específicas. Reorganizamos por fim, o conceito de vínculo segundo as concepções de Wilfred Bion, enfatizando a ideia das relações entre um espaço continente e um conteúdo, recorrendo aos mecanismos de identificação projectiva, e às emoções básicas inerentes ao estabelecimento e manutenção dos vínculos, com as repercussões na capacidade de pensar e desenvolvimento global do ser humano nas suas relações.

Epistemic Anxiety

2018 ◽  
pp. 686-708
Author(s):  
Michael Rustin
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Wilfred Bion ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
New Applications

This chapter develops a concept of epistemic anxiety and explores its particular relevance to educational settings and to wider contexts in contemporary society. The idea brings into conjunction two significant psychoanalytical ideas. The first is that of the epistemophilic instinct proposed, following Freud’s reflections on anxiety, by Melanie Klein and developed by Wilfred Bion into a theory of thinking and its relations to love and hate. The second is the theory of unconscious social defences against anxiety which first evolved within the Tavistock tradition of psychoanalytic social research in the 1950s and has recently been subject to reappraisal and new applications. Its argument is that epistemic anxiety frequently arises in learning situations, and that learning and thinking can be facilitated if this is understood.

scholarly journals ‘Between-time stories’: waiting, war and the temporalities of care

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Laura Salisbury
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Elizabeth Bowen ◽  
World War ◽  
Total War ◽  
Wilfred Bion ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Trench Warfare

This article analyses how World War II shifted and contained embodied experiences of waiting in relation to broader ideas of lived time in modernity. The trench warfare of World War I has often been imagined as a limit experience of anxious waiting, but World War II produced compelling accounts of experiences of suspended time in civilian populations exposed to the threat and anticipation of ‘total war’. This article analyses representations of this suspended present drawn from Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf, alongside materials in the Mass Observation Archive, to develop an account of how exposure to a future shaped by the potential of annihilation from the air reshaped experiences of durational temporality and the timescapes of modernity in the London Blitz. It also explores the relationship between anxiety, waiting, and care by attending to psychoanalytic theories that developed in the wartime work of Wilfred Bion and Melanie Klein. Extending Freud’s account of anxiety as producing ‘yet time’, this article describes how and why both literary and psychoanalytic texts came to understand waiting and thinking with others as creating the conditions for taking care of the future.

The Achievement of Ambivalence

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Hanna Segal
Keyword(s):  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Eugen Bleuler ◽  
Nuclear Age ◽  
Wilfred Bion ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Psychoanalytic Concept ◽  
Very High

Segal traces the development and use of the psychoanalytic concept of ambivalence from Eugen Bleuler to Freud to Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion. Segal’s own argument, ultimately, is that ambivalence is an achievement rather than a problem, though only when it is acknowledged and not repressed. Her essay concludes its survey with Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents” and Segal’s own meditation on the cultural implications of failure to acknowledge ambivalence. In their efforts to overcome ambivalence, groups often depend on the most primitive psychotic mechanisms, dealing with aggression by projecting it outward and thereby creating enmities. Merging with a group superego allows for the perpetrating of atrocities in wars and revolutions that would never be pursued in our personal lives. Segal warns that the price for failing to recognize ambivalence in the nuclear age is very high, perhaps even the survival of the human race.

scholarly journals The Struggle of Integration: James Baldwin and Melanie Klein in the Context of Black Lives Matter

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
David W McIvor
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Wilfred Bion

Recent killings of unarmed black citizens are a fresh reminder of the troubled state of racial integration in the United States. At the same time, the unfolding Black Lives Matter protest movements and the responses by federal agencies each testify to a not insignificant capacity for addressing social pathologies surrounding the color line. In order to respond to this ambivalent situation, this article suggests a pairing between the work of James Baldwin and that of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. I will argue that we cannot fully appreciate the depths of what Baldwin called the “savage paradox” of race without the insights provided by Klein and object relations psychoanalysis. Conversely, Baldwin helps us to sound out the political significance of object relations approaches, including the work of Klein and those influenced by her such as Hanna Segal and Wilfred Bion. In conversation with the work of Baldwin, object relations theory can help to identify particular social settings and institutions that might allow concrete efforts toward racial justice to take root.

7. Further innovations and controversies

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pick
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Wilfred Bion ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Post War ◽  
Donald Winnicott ◽  
Differences In National Culture ◽  
Ego Psychology

‘Further innovations and controversies’ looks in more detail at affinities and differences between some of the key analytic approaches to emerge post-war, especially in America, France, and Britain. It begins with the ‘ego psychology’ tradition in post-war America led by Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris, and Rudolph Loewenstein before considering the work of Jacques Lacan in France and new directions taken in Britain by Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion. Each of these main figures was both an inspiration to others and a catalyst for argument and new approaches. Distinct schools of thought within psychoanalysis owe much to these individual clinicians, but they also reflect wider differences in national culture and thought.

Marcuse e Freud

2012 ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Adriano Voltolin
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Wilfred Bion

L'autore prende in esame la relazione tra il pensiero di Marcuse, da Eros e civiltŕ a La dimesione estetica, e la teoria freudiana cosě come questa č stata assunta dal filosofo tedesco. La tesi qui esposta č che gli interrogativi che Marcuse poneva alla societŕ a lui contemporanea ed alla interpretazione freudiana della stessa risultano essere oggi ancora piů attuali. La discutibilitŕ del Freud ripreso da Marcuse non fa venire meno la considerazione che ciň che č obiettabile non consiste tanto in una distorsione della teoria freudiana, che pure c'č, ma nell'insufficiente sviluppo delle potenzialitŕ della teoria stessa. L'apporto che ad essa č stato dato successivamente da Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion e Jacques Lacan consente in effetti di mettere in luce piů chiaramente la percorribilitŕ teorica dell'impianto marcusiano.

scholarly journals Alma migrante

Revista USP ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Plinio Montagna
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Wilfred Bion ◽  
John Wisdom

A partir do termo “alma”, utilizado originalmente na obra de Freud, o artigo discute a migração humana em seus componentes intra e interpsíquicos, aspectos identitários e as ansiedades despertadas em processo de potencial traumático podendo levar a experiências de despersonalização e desrealização. As migrações apresentam a necessidade de elaborar lutos. A resiliência psicológica significa poder retornar ao modo de ser em outro espaço. O artigo se pauta, além de Sigmund Freud, em contribuições de importantes autores da psicanálise, como Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, John Wisdom, Leon Grinberg e Rebecca Grinberg, Nicole Berry, Salmon Akhtar.

Wilfred Bion: An Original

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-334
Author(s):  
Joseph Reppen
Keyword(s):  
Wilfred Bion
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