Journal article

Melanie Klein, Analyst of Adolescents: IV. The Case of “Fabien Especel”

Pages 483 to 494

Cite this article


  • Agostini, D.
(2005). Melanie Klein, Analyst of Adolescents: Iv. The Case of “fabien Especel” Adolescence, 23(2), 483-494. https://doi.org/10.3917/ado.052.0483.

  • Agostini, Dominique.
« Melanie Klein, Analyst of Adolescents: IV. The Case of “Fabien Especel” ». Adolescence, 2005/2 23, 2005. p.483-494. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-adolescence-2005-2-page-483?lang=en.

  • AGOSTINI, Dominique,
2005. Melanie Klein, Analyst of Adolescents: IV. The Case of “Fabien Especel” Adolescence, 2005/2 23, p.483-494. DOI : 10.3917/ado.052.0483. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-adolescence-2005-2-page-483?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/ado.052.0483


English

Having studied the cases of « Felix », « Ilse », and « Willy », which illustrate the concepts of internal objects, unconscious fantasies and the feminine phase common to both sexes, the author deals with the case of « Fabien Especel » (aged 18). This adolescent is the hero of If I Were You..., Julien Green’s fantastic novel (1947), whose internal world Klein explored in « On Identification » (1955), almost « as though he were a real patient ». The normal and pathological aspects of projective identification are developed and deepened in « On Identification », through the « analysis » of Fabien Especel.

Keywords

  • schizo-paranoid position
  • « excessive » and « normal » projective identification
  • personification
  • clinical treatment of the double

Publisher keywords: « excessive » and « normal » projective identification, clinical treatment of the double, personification, schizo-paranoid position

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