ABSTRACT
After a brief trip to England in 1925, when Klein won over the British analysts to her views, Klein came to live there permanently. Joan Riviere supported her to settle, find patients and a school for her son Erich. The chapter suggests that the creative relationship between Joan and Klein led to an outpouring of brilliant papers by Joan. However, conflict followed Klein wherever she went. This time it was not Klein’s British colleagues, but Freud’s daughter Anna, who was also a child analyst, but using a very different technique. Anna wrote a book criticising Klein’s technique. Ernest Jones set up a symposium to reply. Joan and other colleagues contributed. Freud was furious, but directed his rage at Joan, as he knew her better and may have felt secretly respectful of Klein. Joan and Freud made up, but this was not the last time that Joan would come to Klein’s defence.
