Biography of Melanie Klein Flashcards
Melanie Reizes Klein was born on ________, in _____, Austria. The _____ of four children born to Dr. Moriz Reizes and his second wife, Libussa Deutsch Reizes, Klein believed that her birth was unplanned—a belief that led to feelings of
being _____ by her parents.
March 30, 1882
Vienna
youngest
rejected
She felt especially distant to her father, who favored his oldest daughter, _____.
Emilie
Despite her father’s meager income as a doctor, Klein aspired to become a _____.
physician
Klein’s early relationships were either _____ or ended in _____.
unhealthy
tragedy
After her sister’s death, Klein became deeply attached to her only brother, _____,
who was nearly __ years older and who became her close confidant.
Emmanuel
5
Klein had a special fondness
for her older sister _____, who was __ years older and who taught Melanie _____ and _____.
Sidonie
4
arithmetic and reading
When Klein was __, her father died, but a greater tragedy occurred __ years
later when her beloved brother, _____, died.
18
2
Emmanuel
She married ____ ____, an
_____ who had been Emmanuel’s close friend. Melanie believed that her marriage at age __ prevented her from becoming a _____, and for the rest of her life, she
_____ that she had not reached that goal.
Arthur Klein
engineer
21
physician
regretted
Klein did not have a happy marriage; she dreaded ____ and
abhorred ______.
sex
pregnancy
Her marriage to Arthur
produced _____ children: _____, born in ____; _____, born in ____; and _____, born in ____. In 1909, the Kleins moved to _____, where Arthur had been transferred.
three
Melitta, 1904
Hans, 1907
Erich, 1914.
Budapest
Klein met _____ _____, a member of Freud’s inner circle and the person who introduced her into the world of __________.
Sandor Ferenczi
psychoanalysis
Her mother died in ____, Klein became _______ and entered analysis with Ferenczi, an experience that served as a _____ ____ in her life.
1914
depressed
turning point
Klein was deeply taken by psychoanalysis and trained her ___ according to _____ principles. As part of this training, she began to _____ Erich from the time he
was very young.
son
Freudian
psychoanalyze
Her eldest daughter _____, who became a psychoanalyst,
was analyzed by _____ _____ as well as by others.
Melitta
Karen Horney
Not completely satisfied with her own analysis
by Ferenczi, she ended the relationship and began an analysis with ____ _____,
another member of Freud’s inner circle. After only __ months, however, Klein experienced another tragedy when Abraham ____.
Karl Abraham
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died
