Klein's Bottle: Getting Real

When Freud himself admitted that he had underestimated the negative - 'I can no longer understand how we have overlooked the ubiquity of non-erotic aggressivity and destructiveness... in our interpretation of life'[1] - he was also underestimating the force that was to be Kleinianism within psychoanalysis. Half a century later a whole cluster of modern maladies associated with atomistic culture, that might have once been registered as hysteria, had been described.…