Shall we tell the children?
Paul Seabright, 3 July 1986
Melanie Klein: Her World and her Work
by Phyllis Grosskurth.
Hodder, 516 pp., £19.95, June 1986,0 340 25751 2 Show More
by Phyllis Grosskurth.
Hodder, 516 pp., £19.95, June 1986,
Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925
edited by Perry Meisel and Walter Kendrick.
Chatto, 360 pp., £14.95, February 1986,0 7011 3051 2 Show More
edited by Perry Meisel and Walter Kendrick.
Chatto, 360 pp., £14.95, February 1986,
“... When Alix Strachey, translator of Freud, went to Berlin in 1924 to seek psychoanalysis with Freud’s colleague, Karl Abraham, her most momentous acquisition, in an accumulation consisting inter alia of books, antique knick-knacks and (to a compulsive extent, on the evidence of her letters) of Apfeltorte under lashings of cream, was a then little-known child-analyst of Polish-Slovakian extraction named Melanie Klein ... ”
