ABSTRACT
The inner world which in our unconscious phantasy each of us contains inside them is one of those psychoanalytical concepts that most people find especially difficult to accept or understand. Melanie Klein, in her explorations of unconscious phantasy through her work with very young children, has pursued this theme and brought to light much more concerning the persons in the inner world whom each of psychoanalysts individually has felt or feels to be part of himself. Apart from descriptions of such terrible regions, there are in literature of course innumerable instances of less generalized representations of the bad inner world, transposed into the external world. In the depths psychoanalysts loving or hating relationships to the good or bad mother and father remain—an experience in their past life which is unconsciously indestructible and which on occasions becomes reactivated and relived, its reality re-established.
