

All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Course material will be sent 1 day before the event. Time includes a tea break. All attendees will also receive access to the recording, available to watch back for 1 month.
In the 1920’s. Melanie Klein was a pioneer of child psychoanalysis whose radically new way of working with children brought her into sharp conflict with Freud’s daughter Anna – also a pioneer in the field. But by the mid 1930’s, the understanding of infancy and childhood she had arrived at, based on her work with her young patients (as well as with adults), had enabled her to create a powerful new version of psychoanalytic theory that would take psychoanalysis completely beyond Freud, marking the beginning of the Object Relations school.
Her paper ‘A Study of Envy and Gratitude’, first delivered to the Nineteenth International Psychoanalytic Congress in Geneva in the summer of 1955, then expanded into a paper delivered to the British Psychoanalytic Society in early 1956, then, finally, expanded further into a short book, published in 1957, contains her last major original contribution to psychoanalysis.
Klein’s writings contain a profound understanding of what it is to be human, with implications for art and for society, as well as for psychotherapy. On this three-hour course, we will explore this extraordinary late paper, in which Klein sought to add one final element to her thinking about the first and most formative experiences of infancy – based on an insight that seemed to her to complete her vision of the human condition.
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Speaker:
Keith Barrett BA PhD received his first degree in philosophy from Oxford University after having spent three years working as a nursing assistant in psychiatric hospitals. It was in this practical context that Keith first encountered existentialism and psychoanalysis. He then began postgraduate studies on both Freud and Heidegger, leading finally to a PhD from the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL for a dissertation on ‘Freud’s Self-Analysis’. Keith has been a philosophy teacher for over 20 years, and has been delivering courses at the Freud Museum for over a decade, where he has developed a series of introductory lectures on Freud, psychoanalysis after Freud, and the overlap of philosophy and psychoanalysis.
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