Kleinian

adj. denoting or in accordance with the theories and methods of the school of psychoanalysis founded by Melanie Klein, including concepts such as internalization, object relations, the depressive position, idealization, and the paranoid-schizoid position.

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January 19th 2025

Emmert’s law

Emmert’s law

the principle that the perceived size of an afterimage is proportional to the distance of the surface on which it is projected: The larger the afterimage, the farther away it is. See size constancy. [Emil Emmert (1844–1913), German physiologist]