ABSTRACT
This previously unpublished lecture is to be found in the Melanie Klein Archives at the Wellcome Library in London, in file PP/KLE/C.51. It can be freely viewed online via the Wellcome Library website. Like the material in Chapter 4 that follows, it was given at the London Institute of Education in May 1939 as part of a series known as the Joseph Payne lectures, the overall topic of which was ‘Psychoanalysis and Normal Development’. Like Klein’s other lay lectures it is clearly and compellingly written, showing her passion for her subject, and full of illustrative examples.
