Kleinian

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to Christian Felix Klein (1849–1925), German mathematician.

Of or pertaining to Melanie Reizes Klein (1882–1960), Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children.

Examples

Bion's theories, which were always based in the phenomena of the analytic encounter, eventually revealed radical departures from both Kleinian and Freudian theory. Source: Internet

Bion, Experiences p. 164–5 Such phantasies would prove the main focus of Bion's interest after his second (Kleinian) analysis. Source: Internet

R. D. Laing, Self and Others (Middlesex 1969) p. 17 and note As a defining feature, 'Kleinian psychoanalysts regard the unconscious as made up of phantasies of relations with objects. Source: Internet

The question was never answered with anything but Kleinian snarls and threats, and here we are. Source: Internet

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