ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Melanie Klein in the history of British modernity that she both represented and, in important ways, sustained and helped to transform. It argues that an extension of the thesis he developed in his classic study, Capitalism, The Family and Personal Life. The chapter demonstrates how industrial capitalism had split the home and family from the economics of production. It shows how her work inaugurated a new interpersonal ethics. In contrast to Sigmund Freud's moral and Kantian. It situates the history of psychoanalysis in the context of the shift from the family to 'personal life.' Historically, the family was the primary site organizing production and reproduction. As a result, the individual's sense of identity was rooted in their place in the family. The integration of psychoanalysis into the welfare state began in England during the 1930s, and culminated during World War II.
