By Melanie Klein, Susan Isaacs, Paula Heimann, Joan Riviere
Psychoanalysis is a technological know-how obviously fore-ordained to progress and growth, and between those that have prolonged the scope of either thought and perform Melanie Klein holds a different position.
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The discussion of the part played by these factors in reference to the general phenomenon of fixation and regression provides an opportunity for a clear demonstration of the way in which her views supplement the older formulations and present many problems which had pre viously been far from perspicuous in a more intelligible light. As an example, the typical conflicts and liability to regression which are common at the menopause in women are discussed to illustrate the general proposition that 'it is the recurrence of 27 primitive destructive aims which is the chief causative factor in the outbreak of mental illness'.
Paula Heimann brings to gether many other interesting considerations bearing on the question, drawn from practice as well as argued on the basis of theory. She emphasizes the exceedingly important fact that the repetition-compulsion, which is an incontestable observa tion, runs counter to the pleasure-principle. She shows how the various theories regarding the nature of anxiety can be recon ciled by reference to the concept of a death instinct. The importance in ordinary life of the need to hate, to find or GENERAL INTRODUCTION 35 imagine 'bad* persons in the environment, is clarified by the necessity to deflect a measure of the death-dealing force out wards.
1 37 38 DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHO-ANALYSIS The pioneer work of Melanie Klein has led in particular to a close study of these problems in the British Psycho-Analytical Society and in my view has directly or indirectly influenced most of the work of its members in recent years. I must, how ever, make it clear that I alone am responsible for the general formulation put forward here. Besides attempting to present as a whole many of the principal theoretical contributions made by our members, my paper is also a personal attempt to co ordinate newly recognized data into a useful theoretical hypothesis.