ABSTRACT
Nicolas Abraham and Torok challenge the universalizing abstractions of psychoanalysis, by insisting on the historical uniqueness of each analytic situation. Melanie Klein's name, once decrypted, reveals a lineage of familial traumas that restore a historical dimension to the apparent ahistoricism of Klein's theory. Melanie Klein's name, once decrypted, reveals a lineage of familial traumas that restore a historical dimension to the apparent ahistoricism of Klein's theory. When the authors talk about the Kleinian breast, the Kleinian system or Kleinian phantasy, they are evoking the name of Klein, the abandoned engineer. In the Kleinian system, in fact, everything is phantasy, and the multiple dreams to do with the breast as it is both fondled and attacked constitute our mythic history. In 1919, at the request of her analyst, Melanie Klein presented her observations of Fritz in a lecture entitled 'The Development of a Child'.
