Unit 3 Questions Psychology 352 Dr.Rossiter Jeanne Baker 3—8-09 2. Analyze the differencesin Freud’s and Klein’s view of the development and involvement of the superego. Klein believed that the superego was in operation vey early before Freud’s Oedipus complex. She believed the seeds of the superego were already to be found in the first and second year of life. Klein started with Freud, but developed her own approach. This made her opposed to Freud, and also Anna Freud, another child psychoanalyst. This also split the British Psychoanalyst Society into separate camps. Klein believed that in the infants fantasy life, the child at every stage of development introjects his object, usually his parents, and builds up the superego. The first introjected object, the mother’s breast play a part from the beginning. The origin of the superego is said to one of the greatest controversies. Anna Freud, following her father, thought that the superego is formed when the Oedipus complex declines. Klein believedthat the superego is formed during the period of the Oedipus complex, and not suddenly at the end. In this way she thought her theory did not cause a change in Freud’s ideas. In Freud’s theory the super ego would only be formed later when the child was nearly five, and as a result of the resolution of the Oedipus complex. Literature of the superego in the Freudian view shows us an introjected figure, a parental voice of morality telling the child how to follow the rules and what happens if they don’t. Freud’s superego is the internal image which continues to live inside the child controlling and punishing the child. Klein proposed to major revisions to Freud’s concept of superego and it relation to the Oedipus complex. She proposed that superego is formed at the beginning of the Oedipus complex. Second, she shifted it back in time, saying it began with the end of breastfeeding. Klein thought that the superego exists very much earlier than Freud thought because of...