ABSTRACT
An important issue that needs to be addressed is the evolution of Kleinian thinking over the years. Many of the London post-Kleinians have carried Kleinian thinking and practice into a contemporary genre, seeming to eschew part-object, anatomical interpretations and infantile references in favour of relationship modes and functions and of emphasizing the transference-countertransference process situation—that is, the Bionian/post-Kleinian version of the inter-subjective or bi-personal field—in contrast to the older one-person model. In "The Origins of Transference", Klein (1952a) lays the foundation for her conceptualization of the "transference situation" and her close recapitulation of the unfolding in infancy of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions in association with their expression of persecutory and depressive anxieties, respectively. Bion was clearly a Kleinian revisionist. His concept of transformations never became part of the London Contemporary Kleinian oeuvre: they came to be embraced by Kleinian-Bionians in South America in particular.
