‘Strong clinging to objects’: materiality and relationality in Melanie Klein’s Observations after an Operation (1937) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

This article presents and analyses a set of notes written by the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein following an operation in 1937. The notes, entitled Observations after an Operation, act as a case study of the intersection of psychical, material and social relations as they play out in the immediate afte...

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Main Author: Harriet Barratt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wellcome 2021-02-01
Series:Wellcome Open Research
Online Access:https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/6-40/v1