the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the l…

- Melanie Klein

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the suf…

- Melanie Klein

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

- Melanie Klein

It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfa…

- Melanie Klein

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

- Melanie Klein

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insigh…

- Melanie Klein

My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved on…

- Melanie Klein

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

- Melanie Klein

The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

- Melanie Klein