ABSTRACT
As opposed to Freud’s structural model, Klein opted for terms such as subject, ego, or self interchangeably to account for the structure of the personality and the internal mobility derived from the relationship with objects. Klein’s world is presented as a stage of relationships where the ‘citizens’ of the inner world, the ‘assembly’ of objects maintain the most varied and multiple relationships with the subject. The denial of psychic reality is a product derived from the lack of imagination. It leads to a mental restriction that promotes the belief that reality remains circumscribed to a known, concrete, and immediate sphere. If the restriction is accompanied by a belief in language as something concrete, then the exact combination is created for the “evacuation of emotional experiences and in this way prevent them coming to form a part of the mental experience”.
