As we noted in Chapter 2, Ferenczi’s encouragement was the first major factor in Klein’s entry into her career as a psychoanalyst, but the second factor for her was the development in psychoanalysis of an interest in depression. Freud and colleagues were ambitious to expand the scope of psychoanalytic understanding, and they turned in various directions, one being Klein’s personal tribulation: depression.

What did Klein absorb from psychoanalysis which was relevant to her own thinking?