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.

Julia Borossa

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 *