Main description:

Although best known as a disseminator of Freudian and Kleinian ideas, the author also contributed important and original material to the body of psychoanalytic literature. This volume presents some of this material and highlights the importance of the author's contribution.

Contents:

Foreword , Joan Riviere: Her life and work , Early short papers , The beauty of translation , Four uncompromising book reviews , Polemics , Defensive femininity , Possibly the first contribution concerning envy of the primal scene , Freud in the 1930s , Those wrecked by success , Freud's autobiography , Public lectures , A moving tribute to Freud , Bereavement , Freud-the questioner , Kleinian thinking in the 1950s , Early psychological development: London/Vienna , The inner world as seen in literature , An inner world , A last word about Freud