ABSTRACT
This chapter explores further Klein's ground-breaking development in the decade from the early 1920s, especially in engaging her young patients analytically, in spite of—or even because of—strong negative transferences, inventing and shaping a technique for, and understanding of, the negative transference and its many forms. It emphasizes how Klein's analysis of very young children brought totally new dimensions to the concept of the negative transference and modes of resistance. Klein's developing attitudes to limit-setting were liberal. Klein's innovatory work in addressing the dynamics of the transference—especially of negative transference issues—in the progress of an analysis established very clearly that work with negative transferences was gradual and a process. The chapter also explores, that Klein's discovered the necessity for the child analyst to recognize and face the challenges of working with and understanding the negative transferences often presented by the small child, in order to make analytic progress.
