Melanie Klein was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had an impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis. She was a leading innovator in theorizing object relations theory, and remains one of the most important figures in psychoanalytical theory and practice. Roger Money-Kyrle (1898-1980) was an influential psychoanalyst particularly noted for his promotion and development of the ideas of Melanie Klein. He was analysed by Ernest Jones, by Freud and later by Klein. Initially his interest in psychoanalysis was stimulated in connection with his work in philosophy, anthropology, and the social sciences generally, but following his analysis with Klein he became a practising analyst and subsequently a training analyst. His papers reflect both his interest in the contributions that psychoanalytic thought could make to understanding social problems, in particular in matters of war and politics, and also his contributions to analytic theory and praxis.

PREFACE BY ERNEST JOINES -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE -- PAPERS IN CLINICAL PSYCHO-ANALYSIS -- 1. MELANIEKLEN -- The Psydio-41nalytlc Play Technique: Its history and sigficawe -- 2. PAULA HEIMANN -- A Contribution w the re-eva1uation of the (Edipus Complex—early stages -- 3. W. CLIFFORD M. SCOTT -- A Psycho-Analytic concept of the orgin Depression -- 4. 11. GWEN EVANS -- Early Anxiety Situation in the aialynsefa boy rn the Lerscy Period -- 5. MARION MILNER -- The role of Illusion In Symbol Formation -- 6. LOIS MUNRO -- Steps in Ego-Integration observed In a Play-Analysis -- 7. EMIUO RODEUGUE -- The analysis of a three-year-old mute schizophrenic -- 8. HERBERT ROSENFELD -- Notes on the Psyche-Analysis of the Super-Ego Conflict in an acute schizophrenic patient -- 9. W.R.BION -- Language and the schizophrenic -- 10. PAULA HETMANN -- A combination of Defence Mechanisms in Paranoid States -- 11. BERYL SANDFORD -- An obsessional man’s need to be “kept” -- H12. ANS A. THORNER -- Three Defeswcs against Inner Persecution -- PART TWO -- PAPERS IN APPLIED PSYCHO-ANALYSIS MELANIE KLEIN -- On identification -- 14. JOAN R.IVIERE -- The Unconscious Phantasy of an Inner World reflected in -- examples front literature -- 15. JOAN RIVIERE -- The Inner World in Ibsen’s MASTER-BUILDER -- 16. HANNA SEGAL -- A Psycho-Analytical approach to Aesthetics -- 17. ADRIAN STOKES -- Form in Art -- 18. R. B. MONEY-KYRLE -- Psycho-Analysis and Ethics -- 19. W. K. BION -- Group Dynamics: a re-view -- 20. ELLIOTT JAQUES -- Social Systems as a defence against Persecutory and Deprcssiie -- Anxiety -- 21. R. E. MONEY-KYRLE -- An inconclusive contribution to the theory of the Death Instinct.