Complicating Disorder: The Play of Interpretation and Resistance in Melanie Klein's Narrative of a Child Analysis

Abstract

This essay explores the challenge to the order/disorder binary offered by the dynamics of the psychoanalytic session, specifically one of Melanie Klein’s child analyses. It argues that the perception of psychoanalysis as normalizing is considerably complicated by the play of interpretation and resistance between analyst and child.

Résumé

Cet essai explore le concept binaire de normal/trouble offert par la dynamique de la session psychanalytique, plus particuliérement l’une des analyses sur l’enfant de Melanie Klein. Il argumente que la perception de normalisation de la psychanalyse s’avére considèrablement compliquèe par le jeu d’interprètation entre analyste et enfant.