type: #book-note date: 2022-10-26
APAvar: Alford, C. Fred (1989). Melanie Klein & Critical Social Theory. Yale University Press. Link: https://worldcat.org/en/title/19553503
Melanie Klein as a Social Theorist?
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Whereas Freud saw the group as modeled on the authoritarian love of the family, a Kleinian perspective sees the group as defending against primitive anxiety. The problem with groups is that they are so good at defending against this anxiety that they forestall ==the emotional conflicts that lead to moral learning==.