The New Klein-Lacan Dialogues

This book provides a timely exploration and comparison of key concepts in the theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, two thinkers and clinicians whose influence over the development of psychoanalysis in the wake of Freud has been profound and far-reaching. Whilst the centrality of the unconscious is a strong conviction shared by both Klein and Lacan, there are also many differences between the two schools of thought and the clinical work that is produced in each. The purpose of this collection is to take seriously these similarities and differences. Deeply relevant to both theoretical reflection and clinical work, the New Klein-Lacan Dialogues should make interesting reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, mental health professionals, scholars and all those who wish to know more about these two leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis.The collection centres around key concepts such as: 'symbolic function', the 'ego', the 'object', the 'body', 'trauma', 'autism', 'affect' and 'history and archives'.

Editors’ Introduction: The new dialogues: Freud, Klein, Lacan , Part I , An introduction to Melanie Klein’s ideas , An introduction to Lacan , Part II , Klein–Lacan: ego , The ego according to Klein: return to Freud and beyond , The ego and the other in Lacan’s return to Freud , Part III , The object , The object: a Kleinian view , The object in Klein and Lacan , Part IV , Klein–Lacan: the body , Corporeality and unconscious phantasy: the role of the body in Kleinian theory , Lacan on the body , Part V , Klein–Lacan: trauma , Trauma in Kleinian psychoanalysis , Trauma , Part VI , Affects , Affects in Melanie Klein , Passion: a Lacanian reading of Freud’s “affect” , Part VII , Autism , A Kleinian approach to the treatment of children with autism , Lacan and autism , Part VIII , The Symbolic , Symbolism, emotions, and mental growth , Symbolic functioning , Part IX , Why Klein–Lacan dialogue is difficult , History, archives; Freud, Lacan *

Julia Borossa