Some technical implications of Klein's concept of ‘premature ego development’

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ID8972089
AutoresJudith L Mitrani (12050 Fairburn Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA ‐, autor correspondente), Judith Mitrani
Ano2007
Volume88
Fascículo4
Páginas825-842
Data de publicação2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1516/3218-4471-vv75-0n07
PMID17681895
OpenAlexW1966800262
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas6

In this paper, the author revisits the problem of ‘premature ego development’ first introduced by Melanie Klein in 1930. She also highlights several developments in post‐Kleinian thinking since the publication of that paper, which can be seen as offshoots of or complements to Klein's work. The author proposes a link between this category of precocious development and the absence of the experience of what Bion termed the ‘containing object.’ She puts forward several technical considerations relevant to analytic work with patients who suffer as a result of early developmental failures and presents various clinical vignettes in order to demonstrate the ways in which these considerations take shape in the analytic setting

Cognitive science · Economics · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Loevinger's stages of ego development · Object (grammar · Object relations theory · Order (exchange · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Work (physics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy