TY - JOUR T1 - Reflections on Klein's radical notion of phantasy and its implications for analytic practice. A1 - Blass,Rachel B, Y1 - 2017/05/26/ PY - 2017/04/19/accepted PY - 2017/5/27/pubmed PY - 2018/3/30/medline PY - 2017/5/27/entrez KW - Freud KW - Klein KW - Kleinian psychoanalysis KW - interpretation KW - phantasy KW - psychoanalytic technique KW - transference KW - unconscious phantasy SP - 841 EP - 859 JF - The International journal of psycho-analysis JO - Int J Psychoanal VL - 98 IS - 3 N2 - Analysts may incorporate many of Melanie Klein's important contributions (e.g., on preoedipal dynamics, envy, and projective identification) without transforming their basic analytic approach. In this paper I argue that adopting the Kleinian notion of unconscious phantasy is transformative. While it is grounded in Freud's thinking and draws out something essential to his work, this notion of phantasy introduces a radical change that defines Kleinian thinking and practice and significantly impacts the analyst's basic clinical approach. This impact and its technical implications in the analytic situation are illustrated and discussed. SN - 1745-8315 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/28548205/Reflections_on_Klein's_radical_notion_of_phantasy_and_its_implications_for_analytic_practice_ L2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12674 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -