Why I do like Melanie Klein

Abstract

The author narrates about her conviviality with Melanie Klein on the different areas in her professional life: apprenticeship, supervision, teaching and her clinic experience. She comments some critics wich Melanie Klein’ theory/technics and writes has been suffered. She presents cutouts of an analysis of a young boy in order to claim how much kleinians observations and discovers emerges through playful activities revealing the child inter world, identifying unconscious phantasies, conflicts, anxieties, defenses e resistances. Otherwise, she brings evidences on the importance of kleinians’ contributions, such as the esquizoparanoid and depressive positions, the projective identification, fundamentals to the comprehension of the intrapsychics and intersubjectives phenomena.