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« When someone unconsciously feels that he lacks love and kindness and fears that this defect will be discovered by the loving partner or hurt him, then he begins to be jealous and to seek in the other a lack of love so as not to see this defect in himself, in order to see evil in a rival instead of seeing it in him. »
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Melanie Klein
Love and Hate |
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Melanie Klein
Love and Hate
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« If the self is able to repair the lost object, then it can engage in a creative work that contains pain and mourning work for the benefit of the birth of the symbol. I believe that this object, assimilated, becomes a symbol within the self. »
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Melanie Klein
Envy and gratitude and other essays |
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Melanie Klein
Envy and gratitude and other essays
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« In a personality that has evolved in a truly successful way, a certain amount of love remains available to parents; to this love is added the love of others and the love of things. However, and I have emphasized this point, it is not a mere extension of love, but a diffusion of feelings that diminishes the weight of conflict and guilt of the child related to his attachment to the first loved ones and his dependence on them. »
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Melanie Klein
Love and Hate |
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Melanie Klein
Love and Hate
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