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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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