ABSTRACT
Some mixture of fear and hate is almost always involved in the distortions and deformations that characterize psychotic experience and behavior. The work of hidden fear–hate can often be read in the person's body, which may be twisted and bent over with the rage he is out of touch with. Melanie Klein emphasized the importance of envy in the way that unconscious hatred works. For Melanie Klein, early hate dramas become organized around the infant's reaction to dependency. M. Mahler descriptions capture important facets of the child's triumph over dependency urges, the fear of, yet wish for, separation and individuation, and a gradual consolidation of self- and object-representations with which to organize the self. What seems to be lacking in her work is a critical assessment of the resulting normal psychic structures and the internalization process as such.
