Personality Theorists

Joseph M. Fowler
27 Apr 04
Personality Theories
Judy Powers
Melanie Klein (1882 -1960):
She started the shift in emphasis away from studying innate biological instincts and towards relations between people. She described how, primarily because of anxiety over aggressive impulses, children split objects and feelings into good and bad aspects in an effort to retain good ones as part of the self while getting rid of bad ones by projecting them onto others. Splitting of an object image into opposites in the internal world of fantasy permits children to treat the internalized object as clearl…