ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a fuller summary of Mr B's history, development and difficulties as can be gleaned from Klein's notes. It discusses some of the important developments in his analysis, such as his coming to terms with the death of his mother and with unhappy parental relations as these had been internalised by him. Mr B is a patient, Klein suggests, who has ‘never quite grown up from the nursery,’ and he conveys to Klein his belief that since his difficulties began so early, they can never be put right. Mr B's powerful sense of being aggrieved by the birth of his younger sister when he was five years old is shown in this chapter. His love of the natural world, music, and of classical literature also becomes evident. We see how Mr B's sensual love for his mother gets turned into hate, and the question of possible sexual activity between siblings, and of whether this took place purely at the level of phantasy, is raised.
