The Psychotic Rage of the Infant

Sally Kohn: Freud comes closest to like what Melanie Klein will later think of as the sort of like, you know, like the psychotic rage of, of the infant. She says it's a moment where what previously was a dyadic relationship of like near union with the mother becomes frustrated because of the interpretation of a third party. The child now has to rearrange themselves in terms of a triangular relationship and they're not just frustrated but full of rage she says. Salkin: This is also one of the first foreshadowing of what will become the castration complex or the threat of castration for men.

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