ABSTRACT
S. Freud describes the baby’ s bodily taking in of the world, drinking it in with his eyes and with his mouth. Analyst Melanie Klein showed a remarkable determination to get to this, which seemed so vital and yet tantalisingly inaccessible. Melanie Klein speaks of the infant in the first weeks and months of his life. In this time the baby is making sense of his world through his sense impressions, as in the description of the infant looking intently at one part of a mother’s face–and then another aspect of her comes startlingly into focus. For if analysts' mother is a whole figure, then the one the baby and toddler/analysts make demands on and exhaust, is her. An additional source of provocation and rage is the awareness that analysts' mother shares her goods. She has relationships with others: with her partner, with other siblings and maybe with a new baby–and in this analysts are on the outside looking on.
