Melanie Klein and Anna Freud: The discourse of the early dispute

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-15

  Viner, Russell ^a,b  

^a Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine

^b CLARE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SUPEREGO;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SUPEREGO;

EID: 0029678117     PISSN: 00225061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6696(199601)32:1<4::AID-JHBS1>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Anna Freud, Introduction to the Technique of Child Analysis, originally published in German in early 1927 was first aired in Berlin in March 1927.
2. This work is now available in "Four Lectures on Psychoanalysis," The Writings of Anna Freud Volume 1: Introduction to Psychoanalysis, 1922-1925 (NY: International Universities Press, 1974), pp. 3-69;
3. Melanie Klein, "Symposium on Child Analysis," International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 8 (1927): 339-391.
4. Sigmund Freud, Analysis of a Phobia in a Five year-old Boy (1909) - the first known case of the analysis of a child.
5. Recent biographies of Anna Freud, Elisabeth Young-Breuhl, Anna Freud. (London: Pan Macmillan, 1991)
6. and Melanie Klein, Phyllis Gross-Kurth, Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1985) have come from scholars with allegiances within the analytic tradition.
7. All other histories of child analysis and the Freud-Klein dispute also originate from within the analytic milieu, e.g., Anna Freud, "A Short History of Child Analysis," The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 21 (1967): 7-14;
8. E. J. Anthony, "A Brief History of Child Psychoanalysis," Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 25 (1986): 8-11;
9. Sylvia Brody, "Contributions to Child Analysis," The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 29 (1974): 13-30;
10. J. M. Hughes, Reshaping the Analytic Domain: The Work of Melanie Klein, W. R. D. Fairbairn, and D. W. Winnicott (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989);
11. Janet Sayers, Mothering Psychoanalysis: Helene Deutche, Karen Horney, Anna Freud & Melanie Klein (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991).
12. Also see The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45, Pearl King and Riccardi Steiner, Eds. (London: Tavistock Routledge, 1991) which provides an extensive discussion of the later conflict from within the analytic tradition.
13. Young-Breuhl, Anna Freud,
14. Gross-Kurth, Melanie Klein. Young-Breuhl calls her work an "analytic biography," Gross-Kurth's biography of Klein is less overtly analytic.
15. Sigmund Freud, "Analysis of a Phobia in a Five year old Boy," (1909), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Ed. (London: Hogarth Press, 1953-1964), p. 5.
16. See Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: Her life and work, George Maclean and Ulrich Rappen, Eds. (London: Routledge, 1991),
17. and A Young Girl's Diary, D. Gunn and P. Guyomard, Eds. (London: Unwin & Hyman, 1990).
18. Melanie Klein, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 340.
19. Anna Freud, "A Short History of Child Analysis," pp. 7-14.
20. Initially published in Switzerland, but later moved to Vienna. Continued after World War II in America as The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.
21. Letters of Alix Strachey to James Stracehy, 14 December 1924, and 12 January 1925, in Bloomsbury Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924-1925, Perry Meisel & Walter Kendrick, Eds. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1986);
22. Letter of Sigmund Freud to Ernest Jones, 22 July 1925, The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939, R. A. Paskauskas, Ed. (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1993) (hereafter referred to as Correspondence) pp. 578-579.
23. August Aichorn's Wayward Youth (London: Putnam, 1936) (first German edition 1925).
24. "Symposium on Child Analysis of the British Psychoanalytic Association, May 4 & 18, 1927" (speakers - Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere, Nina Searle, Ella Sharpe, Edward Glover, Ernest Jones). International Journal of Psychoanalysis 8 (1927): 339-391.
25. Melanie Klein, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 343.
26. Letter of Melanie Klein to Ernest Jones, 24 October 1926, quoted in Grosskurth, Melanie Klein, p. 161.
27. Young-Breuhl, Anna Freud, p. 165.
28. Anna Freud, Writings, p. 51.
29. Edward Glover, "Symposium on Child Analysis," International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 8 (1927): 385.
30. Anna Freud, Writings, pp. 38-39.
31. Anna Freud, Writings, p. 39.
32. Melanie Klein, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 355.
33. Ernest Jones to Sigmund Freud, 30 September 1927, Correspondence, pp. 625-632;
34. Ernest Jones, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 391.
35. Sigmund Freud to Ernest Jones, 23 September 1927, Correspondence, pp. 623-625.
36. Anna Freud, Writings, pp. 19, 68-69.
37. Melanie Klein, "Symposium on Child Analysis," pp. 339-340.
38. Melanie Klein, "Symposium on Child Analysis," pp. 343, 354.
39. Joan Riviere, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 370.
40. Melanie Klein, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 339
41. - Klein quotes from Little Hans, Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud, Vol. III, pp. 284-285. The italics are Klein's.
42. Anna Freud, Writings, p. 5.
43. Anna Freud, Writings, pp. 68-69.
44. Letter of Sigmund Freud to Max Eitingon, November 1926, quoted in Young-Breuhl, Anna Freud, p. 163.
45. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents VII (1929/1939) in Sigmund Freud, Civilization, Society and Religion, Albert Dickson, Ed. (Penguin) p. 323.
46. Ernest Jones to Sigmund Freud, 16 May 1927, Correspondence, pp. 617-618.
47. Sigmund Freud to Ernest Jones, 31 May 1927, Correspondence, pp. 618-619.
48. Joan Riviere, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 376.
49. Ella Sharpe, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 384.
50. Sigmund Freud to Ernest Jones, 23 September, 1927, Correspondence, pp. 623-625.
51. Letter of Sigmund Freud to Max Eitingon, 23 September 1927, quoted in Young-Breuhl, Anna Freud, p. 171.
52. Ernest Jones, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 390.
53. Melanie Klein, "Symposium on Child Analysis," pp. 343-344.
54. Ernest Jones, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 390;
55. Melanie Klein, "Symposium on Child Analysis," p. 339
56. - Klein quotes from Little Hans - see Footnote number 26; the italics are Klein's.