ABSTRACT
Klein's early recognition of reparation in the internal world of young children is an important balance to the harsh world of the primitive superego and, by extension, to any account of Klein's work. The characterization of her early work as negative is thus, to a large extent, a consequence of this elimination of her developing concept of reparation in the English translations of her early writings, and therefore of her patients' emergent capability of gradually experiencing more constructive emotionality. The chapter outlines the important early stages of Klein's thoughts on the concept of reparation in The Psycho-Analysis of Children, further examples of the concept of reparation are given from papers in Love, Guilt and Reparation. The net result is to "disappear" clear references to a concept of reparation in connection with feelings of anxiety, love, and guilt in this early stage of Klein's published work.
