Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction. Introduction to Melanie Klein. Melanie Klein and the Emergence of Modern Personal Life. Melanie Mell by Herself. The Question Child. 'Tea Daddy': Poor Mrs Klein and the Pencil Shavings. Tolerating Nothing. Negativity in the work of Melanie Klein. The Fissure of Authority: Violence and the Acquisition of Knowledge. Moral Sadism and Doubting One's Own Love: Kleinian Reflections on Melancholia. Anxiety in Klein: The Missing Witch's Letter. A Psychoanalytic Approach to Aesthetics. Death and Literary Authority: Marcel Proust and Melanie Klein. Notes on Citizen Kane. Index