MELANIE KLEIN Melanie Kleinis volume of Female Genius: Life, Madness, Words— Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein, Colette, a trilogy by Julia Kristeva. european perspectives european perspectives A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Lawrence D. Kritzman, Editor European Perspectives presents outstanding books by leading European thinkers. With both classic and contemporary works, the series aims to shape the major intellectual controversies of our day and to facilitate the tasks of historical understanding. For a complete list of books in the series, see pages – Melanie Klein by Julia Kristeva Translated by Ross Guberman columbia university press new york columbia university press Publishers Since New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright ©  Columbia University Press Le Génie féminin, Melanie Klein© Librairie Arthème Fayard,  All rights reserved Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kristeva, Julia, – [Melanie Klein. English] Melanie Klein / by Julia Kristeva ; translated by Ross Guberman. p. cm. — (European perspectives) Includes bibliographical references (pp. ‒) and index. isbn–––(cloth : alk. paper) . Klein, Melanie. . Women psychoanalysts—Biography. I. Title. II. Series. BF.K K  .''—dc  Casebound editions ofColumbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America c  contents Introduction: The Psychoanalytic Century  chapter : jewish families, european stories: a depression and its aftermath  Libussa  Jews and Catholics  Sándor Ferenczi  Karl Abraham  London  chapter : analyzing her children: from scandal to play technique  The Unconscious Knowledge (of the Child) Versus the Enlightenment (of the Parents)  Inventing Stories with Erich/Fritz  Hans and (Perhaps) Melitta  Playing? Interpreting  Plain Words, Negative Transference, and Decondensation of the Phantasy  vi / contents chapter : the priority and interiority of the other and the bond: the baby is born with his objects  Narcissism and the Object  Inside/Outside  The “Paranoid-Schizoid Position”: Splitting and Projective Identification  The Depressive Position: The Whole Object, the Psychic Realm, and Reparation  chapter : anxiety or desire: in the beginning was the death drive  Eros Absorbed into Thanatos: Sadistic Devouring and the Anal Attack  The Grief that Affords Us a Soul  The Power of Envy and a Wager on Gratitude  Petits Fours, kleineFrou, FrauKlein  chapter : a most early and tyrannical superego  From the Earliest Stages of the Oedipus Conflict  Neither Boys nor Girls Can Avoid It  Persecuting Idealizations and “Concretizations”  The Case of Richard: Goodness Versus Hitler-Ubu  How Can We Avoid Being Alone?  chapter : the cult of the mother or an ode to matricide? the parents  The Perpetually Renewed Breast  A Primary Feminine Phase  Female Sexuality . . .  . . . and Male Sexuality  The “Combined” or Coupled Parents  An Oresteia  contents / vii chapter : the phantasy as a metaphor incarnate  The Representative Before Representation  “Prenarrative Envelopes” Between Anxiety and Language  Do Women Have an Affinity for the Archaic?  chapter : the immanence of symbolism and its degrees  From Equations to Symbols: Dick  Klein on Negativity  The Post-Kleinian Approach to the Archaic and the Primary  Cultural Acts of Sublimation: Art and Literature  chapter : from the foreign language to the filigree of the loyal and disloyal  A Founder Without a Text  Mother and Daughter  Peace and War Among the Ladies  chapter : the politics of kleinianism  From the Great Controversial Discussions to the Independents  Lacan’s Envy and Gratitude  The Left and the Feminists Take Hold of the “Inspired Gut Butcher”  The Inner Mother and the Depth of Thought  Notes  Bibliography  Index  volume two Madness Melanie Klein or matricide as pain and creativity