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The analysis of a psychotic patient is used to illustrate the importance of certain developments of Melanie Klein's work.
The case presentation focuses upon the formal qualities of the patient's communications, many of which were amalgamations of profoundly incompatible elements, particularly a subtle destructiveness which parasitized seemingly impartial reports about her state of mind. These communications embodied important object relationships.