ABSTRACT
Reparation is the will, means, and action of repairing an inner world shattered under the pressure of destructive impulses and an outer world of damaged relationships, people, and things. Reparation, like tikkun, is both a goal and the movement toward this goal. Tikkun has to do with correction, restoration, and rejuvenation. It is the core concept, the raison d'etre of Kabbalah, and it coincides with the impetus for reparation, perhaps the most significant psychoanalytic formulation of Melanie Klein and her colleagues. According to Melanie Kleinian psychology, reparation is never complete, rather it is an active process of striving toward completeness, whether of the head or heart or entire being. The beauty of an analytic relationship is that it provides a second chance to put things right. Klein captured this possibility by her original choice of the term Wiedergutmachung which signifies restitution or reparation.
