ABSTRACT
By 1930 or so, Melanie Klein had opened up new views on the internal world of the mind. This had led to her reconsideration of some fundamental Freudian concepts – the unconscious mind and the place of phantasy, the timing of the Oedipus complex, the super-ego development, and the nature of transference. Important though these were, by 1935 she had moved to more radical ideas, embodied in what she called the depressive position.
What was the conceptual model of the depressive position that evolved from her return to Abraham’s clinical approach?
