A primitive residual ego from birth
1. Does "a primitive residual ego from birth" mean "a primitive ego remained from birth"?
2. Does "For Klein as well" mean "in addition to what was said about Klein, she also believes that..."?
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Klein expanded on Freud’s ideas in the 1920s and 1930s in Britain, where she spent most of her working life. Unlike Freud, for whom the development of the ego is carved from the id, for Klein the infant has a primitive residual ego from birth which incorporates the two innate instincts of love and hate. For Klein as well, we all have a psychotic core. Her theories pivot around two phases, which she calls the paranoidschizoid position and the depressive position. Needless to say, as in Freud, these developmental phases are never completely overcome in a teleological way, and they oscillate throughout one’s life.
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catttt 1. Does "a primitive residual ego from birth" mean "a primitive ego remained from birth"? I don't quite get "residual".
- catttt 1.
- Does "a primitive residual ego from birth" mean "a primitive ego remained from birth"?
- I don't quite get "residual".
- That would seem to mean that the infant's ego is what remains after some sort of erosion, but that is not in evidence in the writing.
- It is possible that the writer messed up and meant only that the infant has a nascent ego.
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catttt1. Does "a primitive residual ego from birth" mean "a primitive ego remained from birth"?
I don't quite get "residual". That would seem to mean that the infant's ego is what remains after some sort of erosion, but that is not in evidence in the writing. It is possible that the writer messed up and meant only that the infant has a nascent ego.
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