Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein (born March 30, 1882, Vienna, Austria—died Sept. 22, 1960, London, Eng.) was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst known for her work with young children, in which observations of free play provided insights into the child’s unconscious fantasy life, enabling her to psychoanalyze children as young as two or three years of age. The youngest child of a Viennese dental surgeon, Klein expressed an early interest in medicine but abandoned her plans when she married...