ABSTRACT
This analysis of a borderline case in the threshold of the depressive position was written one year after the publication of Melanie Klein's "Envy and Gratitude" (1957) and is an application of the theory of envy and a study of splitting processes through projective identification. With clinical material from one week of a young man's analysis, the author shows how the reconstruction of good internal objects and a surge towards the integration of the ego is intimately linked to the danger of fragmentation of the ego and objects.
