Yves Klein

Yves Klein, one of the most prominent and controversial French artist, emerged in the middle of the XX century, remembered above all for his use of single color and the rich shade of ultramarine that he made his own: International Klein Blue. Klein´s art emerged from serious circumstances. France in the late 1940s was still nation traumatized by World War II. The cultural center of gravity had moved across the Atlantic to New York. The artists who remained in Paris, or at least the good ones, were

The Melancholia oil painting by Giorgio de Chirico dated 1916 measuring 20 x 20 ½ inches and the Standing Nude Woman sculpture by Alberto Giacometti dated 1953 measuring 8 ½ x 3 ½ x 4 ¾ inches located in the Menil Collection were both encouraged by European art during the Surrealist movement. This was a time to explore the unconscious mind and to draw from dreams and imagination which resembled a feeling of sadness and alienation suggesting feelings of silence in everyday life. There are many different

The concept of ‘the world’ is significant as one’s interaction with the world could be either demanding or perhaps obstructive (Giles, 1982), as an adolescent’s interaction with the world are formed around loss and defeat (Giles, 1982). This idea of defeat and loss can cause much trauma for the adolescent, resulting in feelings of worthlessness, rejection and loneliness. The last fold of the triad is ‘the future’. Beck (1967) alludes to the idea that a depressed individual’s thoughts about the

Popular Culture of the 1960's Popular culture changed a lot during the end of the fifties and the beginning of the sixties as during the fifties the average weekly wage of an employed adult doubled. This meant that people had more money in there pocket for leisure spending. More people had cars and could take day trips to the coast and the doubled wages meant people could take week or two week holidays during the year. The invention of the television was an overnight

(1923) suggested that the repression theory is when certain forces oppose to some ideas to become conscious. In addition, Freud (1900) came to the conclusion the unconscious processes use dreams to express hidden wish-fulfilment. Accordingly with Klein (1997), object relations exist from the beginning of life. For the baby, the mother 's breast is the first object, and the baby, fearing disintegration or annihilation splits the object into good (gratifying) and bad (frustrating). As a result of this

protests about political or social change that people want and are fighting for. Naomi Klein is a social activist who has wrote books to fight for what she believes in and discriminates what she thinks is bad for our country and in other countries as well. Klein wrote the books No Logo, Fences and Windows, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, and The Shock Doctrine.

Book Review: This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein, published: Sept. 2014 Summarize the book. What is being discussed? Rob Nixon of the New York Times called Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” “a book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable.[1]” Naomi Klein researches the impact of Climate change and its relationship with free market capitalism. She discusses capitalism as failed economic system. She goes into great depth on the

Melanie Klein was a truly inspiring psychoanalysis. With no previous education in this field and being a working mother of three children she “discovered” psychoanalysis after reading ‘Interpretation of dreams’ by Sigmund Freud. She brought about a new way of child analysis by introducing play with toys and showed us the importance of the early stages of a child’s development. She also taught us about depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions and which are still used in psychoanalysis today. All

mother of Object Relations. Melanie Klein believed that drives are object seeking, relational in their essence and not just meant for resolutions of tensions as Freud suggested. Klein postulated that internal object formation is integral to the psychic life of the infant and is based on powerful struggle between the internal forces of ‘life’ and death instincts’, child’s ‘phantasy’, ‘innate envy’ and ‘gratification and lack of ‘ with the prime object (mother). Klein believed that the mother is most

endeavor of psychoanalysis and child development there is a resurgence of interest in studying the work of Melanie Klein. Melanie Klein was a psychoanalyst who devised therapeutic techniques for children that had great impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis. She was best known for play therapy and was a leading innovator in theorizing object relations theory. Melanie Klein was born on March 30th, 1882 in Vienna, Austria. Her father, Dr. Moriz Reisez, was undoubtedly an inspiration