Melanie Klein

The paranoid-schizoid position is a psychic configuration that Klein postulates is when the infant's first attempts to master their own death drive and destructive impulses. They do this by first splitting both their ego and object-representations into good and bad parts and then projecting their destructive impulses onto those bad objects by which they feels persecuted. Failure to leave this position will result in not only paranoid and schizoid disorders but also for obsessional difficulties in which the 'persecuting bad object' is introjected, forming the core of the super-ego.…