ABSTRACT
In this chapter two pieces of recently discovered material show Klein writing about herself and her work. The first item, a letter from Klein to her friend and colleague Elliot Jaques, dates from 1955. It is a recent find which is also not yet part of the Wellcome library archive. In this letter Klein expresses satisfaction about the reception of her work at the recent Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Geneva. She expresses hope mixed with caution about her scientific legacy. The second is an autobiography from 1959 which has hitherto appeared in print only in an earlier and fragmented form. This fuller version, found in the archive of Klein’s colleague Roger Money-Kyrle, had been considered but not included in Klein’s Writings of 1975. Here, four years after the letter, Klein sounds altogether more confident about the survival of her work.
