Readers accustomed to the language and conceptualizations of contemporary British Kleinian psychoanalysis will find the ideas in these two books very familiar. And yet, perhaps in part because of the distinctive cultural settings, one from North and the other from South America, both of these very different books left me wondering at times whether the familiarity of the ideas used by these two authors might be deceptive. For example, Self-Envy by a leading Venezuelan psychoanalyst, Rafael Lopez-Corvo, makes important use of a concept articulated by Freud late in his career, the splitting