Description: (Austrian-British Author and Psychoanalyst)
Melanie Klein was a renowned Austrian-British author and psychoanalyst known for her significant contributions to child analysis. She played a crucial role in advancing object relations theory, proposing that early existential anxiety in infancy led to the formation of the unconscious and the splitting of the world into good and bad idealizations. Klein emphasized the influence of a child's resolution of this split, influenced by their constitution and early nurturing experiences, on the potential presence of distress in later life.