These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein’s Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts, representing a wide range of psychoanalytic thinking, provide new insights and highlight current developments without avoiding the controversies that surround the original publication. The clinical and literary material is engaging and illustrates the effect of theory on practice and the influence of practice on the evolution of theory. I strongly recommend Envy and Gratitude Revisited, which, I believe, will make an important contribution in its own right to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice. -- Donald Campbell Contents: Foreword
R. Horacio Etchegoyen
Introduction
Priscilla Roth
1 “Even now, now, very now . . .”
On envy and the hatred of love
Ignês Sodré
2 Envy, narcissism, and the destructive instinct
Robert Caper
3 Envy and Gratitude: some current reflections
H. Shmuel Erlich
4 An independent response to Envy and Gratitude
Caroline Polmear
5 On gratitude
Edna O’Shaughnessy
6 Keeping envy in mind: the vicissitudes of envy
in adolescent motherhood
Alessandra Lemma
7 Envy in Western society: today and tomorrow
Florence Guignard
8 He thinks himself impaired:
the pathologically envious personality
Ronald Britton
9 The repetition compulsion, envy, and the death instinct
John Steiner
10 Romantic perversion:
the role of envy in the creation of a timeless universe
Heinz Weiß
11 Envy and the negative therapeutic reaction
Michael Feldman
12 Reflections on Envy and Gratitude
Irma Brenman-Pick
13 Being envious of envy and gratitude
Peter Fonagy
14 Vicious circles of envy and punishment
Henry F. Smith |
