ABSTRACT
The clinical record of Klein's work with Mr B in this chapter pertains to the months of June and July in 1936. At the start of this period Mr B's mother is on the verge of death, and so the notes pick up his immediate response to this major loss. Klein's record of this response reveals much about Mr B's internal world, a place in which he feels that life cannot be sustained. He is indeed despairing at this time and is wracked with guilt concerning his failure to protect his mother from a butchering father inside. Klein is able to show that such guilt is mitigated only by a ramping up of hatred towards his mother.
