This book is Melanie Klein's last major theoretical work. It proposes that envy and gratitude are opposing and interacting feelings normally operative from birth and that the first object of envy is the feeding breast. It throws new light on the negative therapeutic reaction, the effect of envy.
1. Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms (1946) 2. On the Theory of Anxiety and Guilt (1948) 3. On the Criteria for the Termination of a Psycho-Analysis (1950) 4. The Origins of Transference ( 1952) 5. The Mutual Influences in the Development of Ego and ld (1952) 6. Some Theoretical Conclusions Regarding the Emotional Life of the Infant (1952) 7. On Observing the Behaviour of Young Infants (1952) 8. The Psycho-Analytic Play Technique: Its History and Significance ( 1955) 9. On Identification (1955) 10. Envy and Gratitude (1957) 11. On the Development of Mental Functioning (1958) 12. Our Adult World and its Roots in Infancy (1959) 13. A Note on Depression in the Schizophrenic (196o) 14. On Mental Health (196o) 15. Some Reflections on The Oresteia (1963) 16. On the Sense of Loneliness (1963)
