ABSTRACT
The conflict between the Kleinian school of analysis, which had greatly influenced the British Psycho-Analytical Society before the war, and the Austrian analysts (and their followers), who had arrived in England in 1938, was fought out after the war. The largest number of British psychoanalysts tried to maintain an "independent" or "middle" position. The chapter founds a personal orientation to the analysis of depression which would explore the experiences of the ego as they displayed themselves clinically, and incorporate some of the Kleinian insights without being committed to the Kleinian timetable of infantile life or the technical approach based on it. It was influenced by Kleinian thinking in its stress on the importance of conflict between internalized objects, and in the importance given to the projection of idealized and degraded partial images in the transference. The chapter isolates some elements of the depressive transference and transference neurosis from the other elements of the neurotic transference.
