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Abstract
The aim of this article is to develop how hope and creativity, as well as hopelessness and destructiveness, can be understood based on the psychic mechanisms and anxieties present in the depressive position (Klein, 1935). Based on the story described in Ravel's opera L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (1925), the emphasis is on the way in which these phenomena are combined and form a feedback loop in the field of childhood fantasy of a boy who feels fury towards his mother for having frustrated his desires.