ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how to teach, but in doing so through illustration, inevitably. It outlines some guidelines on how to teach Melanie Klein, with a special focus on how to open the student to Klein's thinking and practice, how to allow for the immediate experience and sympathy that, as S. Freud explains, is essential for true understanding. Even the notion of the presence of object relationships from birth, referred to as a hallmark of Kleinian thinking, is something that can be found in Freud, as has been stressed by Klein and her followers. The experiential teaching of the Kleinian worldview is made possible, in part, through close reading of great Kleinian texts, which directly address it and do so very movingly. There are many such texts and there are many aspects of this worldview that are important to cover. In teaching the student about the Kleinian worldview the concept of phantasy inevitably arises.
