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In what has been said we have purposely avoided entering into controversy about any particular points in the theories under consideration and have contented ourselves with suggesting a number of problems which radiate from these theories and the study of which we hope may lead to a deeper discussion of the subject. I should like, however, to mention certain general impressions—which are, of course, subject to revision.
Melanie Klein and her concagues have described a number of phantasies (in particular, oral phantasies) which we meet with in the analyses of adults and of older children. In doing so they have followed out a line of thought which has always been included in the sphere of analysis and which was embodied especially in Abraham's writings. We welcome the addition to our knowledge which this line of investigation promises. And we would express our gratitude to Melanie Klein for her promptitude in grasping and working out one of the difficult notions outlined by Freud in The Ego and the Id, which has now become the common property of analysis—the fact, namely, that the aggression of the super-ego is not merely acquired from the object but represents also the subject's own aggressiveness turned in upon himself.