ABSTRACT
Melanie Klein's short stories were written during the period of her marriage which followed her mother’s death. They preceded her divorce and entrance into the world of psychoanalysis. Klein’s stories show the inspiration for her creative writing; they show both her need and her search. They also portray the binding guilt that imprisons her. Each story that P. Grosskurth depicts is revealing. One story is of a woman lying in a hospital bed who is visited by a man. Klara has important role in Klein’s history. During the period of their friendship, Melanie was exposed to the strong Catholic religious beliefs of Klara’s family. This was possibly where Klein had unconsciously adopted aspects of those beliefs into her later psychoanalytic theorising. According to Grosskurth, Klein seems to have offered total surrender to her relationship with her lover, offering her life as well as herself.
