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  1. Jan 25, 2024 · The Kleinian baby must deal with immense anxiety arising from the trauma of birth, hunger, and frustration. The baby, in his phantasy, splits the mother’s breast into the Good Breast which feeds and nourishes, and the Bad Breast which withholds and persecutes the baby.

  2. The breast that feeds the hungry infant is the "good breast", while a hungry infant that finds no breast is in relation to the "bad breast". With a "good enough" facilitating environment, part object functions eventually transform into a comprehension of whole objects.

  3. www.theschooloflife.com › article › the-great-psychoanalystsMelanie Klein - The School of Life

    She is perhaps best remembered today for an unlikely-sounding but inherently sensible theory, advanced in her book The Psychoanalysis of Children (1932), about a ‘good breast’ and a ‘bad breast’ – of which more in a minute.

  4. 2 days ago · Quick Reference. In psychoanalysis, a concept introduced by the British-based Austrian psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882–1960) to denote one aspect of the mother's breast as a part object in an infant's fantasies after splitting of the object into a good breast and a bad breast as a defence against ambivalence and consequent anxiety.

  5. Sep 22, 2020 · Today, I bring you Melanie Klein’s Object Relations Theory a.k.a. the “good” breast and the “bad” breast. I’m drawn to this first and foremost because it focuses on the impact of relationships on development rather than biological drive and sexual impulse (oh hey, Freud).

    • Brooke Hein
  6. Through the intimate stories of several breast cancer patients and their surgeons, The Good Breast explores the cultural roots of the loss of the breast. Unprecedented OR footage presents medicine as a ritual and the mastectomy as a modern form of breast sacrifice.

  7. The Good Breast. Directed by Bernadette Wegenstein • Documentary • 2016 • 94 minutes. THE GOOD BREAST explores breast cancer as ritual, presenting today's rise of the mastectomy in the U.S. as a modern form of breast sacrifice.