Splitting

In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses splitting.

Don goes on to discuss a problem in Kleinian theory of development, and how Klein attributes the capacity to split of infants under six months of age.

That said, splitting is a complex cognitive capacity to abstract and generalize that can only arise with symbolization, sometime in the second year of life.

This is not a problem for the Kleinian theory of the mind of older children, adolescents and adults, but only for its theory of infant development.

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