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My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.

Melanie Klein

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

Melanie Klein

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

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The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

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It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

Melanie Klein

The anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

Melanie Klein

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein

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Born: March 30, 1882

Died: September 22, 1960 (aged 78)

Bio: Melanie Reizes Klein was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had an impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis.

Known for:

Psycho-analysis of children (1948)
Selected Melanie Klein
Narrative of a Child Analysis
Envy and gratitude & other works, 1946-1963
Love, Hate and Reparation (1937)

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