The editors of the new Kleinian Studies ejournal
http://www.human-nature.com/ksej/index.html
are pleased to announce the publication of our first article:

'A "Confusion of Tongues":Difficulties in Conceptualizing Development
in Psychoanalytic Theories'
by Marilyn Charles, Ph.D.
http://www.human-nature.com/ksej/charles.htm

Abstract
Recent attempts to integrate the richness of an intrapsychic analytic
focus with the actuality of social interactions as explicated by
developmental research have been obstructed by a 'confusion of
tongues' between linear and dynamic models.  In keeping with a
tendency to conceptualize complex phenomena in terms of primary
oppositions rather than integrative dialectics, there appears to be
an underlying ambivalence towards valuing nonverbal versus verbal
understandings.  The author gives a
brief overview of the development of nonverbal and symbolic ways of
understanding self and world, using Matte-Blanco's conceptualization
of symmetrical versus asymmetrical processes as a framework for
understanding the dynamic interplay between these two modes of
understanding. Using the work of Klein as an example, she highlights
two interrelated problems that stem from our tendency to think in
terms of linear models:
1) developmentally later events become valorized over
those that precede them temporally, and
2) pathology and development become confused.

The editors invite submissions, ideas, proposals of books to review,
offers of reviews or comments on the project. Please send
communications to the editor.

Donald L. Carveth, Editor
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