ABSTRACT
The Kleinian theory of child development is in fact implicit in the description of the analysis of Richard and in the notes that complete it. The child starts to realize something that he had never properly understood before, that is that the friend that enters his mouth, just like his first friend which was attached to him by the umbilical cord makes him grow. He also realizes that, rather than his mother–friend becoming small, it is he who is growing because it is this mother-friend, which, just like his original friend, helps him to grow. The child senses that this process will continue for some time and that a day will come, possibly in the not too distant future, when he will be as big as his mother–friend and will be able to marry her instead of his friend-wife and live happily ever after.
