ABSTRACT
Until recently Betty Joseph’s work, which represents a particular development within the Kleinian tradition, has been little known outside a comparatively narrow circle of British psychoanalysts and Kleinian psychoanalysts abroad. It is the purpose of this book to collect her various papers together so as to make her seminal ideas more readily accessible. The aim of this General Introduction is to outline the main themes of her work. The papers themselves are divided into four sections, each of which has an introduction of its own which links the particular papers of the section with the main themes described in the General Introduction. The papers are reprinted in the order in which they were written, which sometimes differs from the order in which they were published.
