ABSTRACT
Klein published this short book in 1957. It is a very significant part of her contribution to psychoanalysis because of the originality of her understanding of the importance of the role of envy and gratitude in early object relations, and her contention of the ubiquitous presence of these emotions in infancy and throughout later life. This chapter will set out the main lines of her argument, illustrating this with quotations from the text, and providing some further commentary.
