As you can see from Chapter 15, this focus on technique as opposed to proliferating more theories has become the most prominent advance in the development of Kleinian psychoanalysis since Klein herself. Whilst she did not write a great deal on ‘technique’ or the detailed how-to of the psychoanalytic work (but see Steiner, 2017 ), certain of her theories have been productive in thinking out these ways of working. The problem, however, arises here as those important ideas, such as projective identification, risk becoming overused, almost as a result of a fetishistic interest.

What are these developing ideas?