ABSTRACT
Melanie Klein’s work had a profound impact on both British and international psychoanalysis. The richness and originality of Klein’s discoveries makes it very difficult to discuss the full impact that her ideas had in Britain and abroad, as her followers continue to develop her theories into what is today a very rich, always expanding, school of thought. Melanie Klein became a member of the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society (Klein, 1921). The following year Klein met Karl Abraham at the International Psychoanalytical Congress in The Hague. He encouraged her to devote herself to child analysis and suggested that she settle in Berlin. Tensions between the different ideas on child analysis sustained by Melanie Klein and Anna Freud became more evident after the arrival of Freud and his family in London, and became more acute after Freud’s death in 1939.
