The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.
Melanie KleinIt is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.
Melanie KleinThe highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.
Melanie KleinIt is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.
Melanie Klein