ABSTRACT
Susan Isaacs returned from what must have seemed like losing a war at the Malting House School in Cambridge, she immediately picked up on her attendance at the regular fortnightly Wednesday meetings of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Susan played a major part in the conflict, especially at the time of its denouement in the early nineteen forties, when she made what may have been a decisive intervention. The battles between these different schools of psychoanalysis therefore form an important part of her story as they do of the history of child analysis. Melanie Klein, whose influence on Susan equalled that of Sigmund Freud, was born in Vienna in 1882, the youngest of four children. Libussa was an overwhelming woman whose intrusiveness during Melanie's adolescence may have been one of the factors deciding her daughter to opt for an early engagement and marriage.
