Evans demonstrates with ten selected examples from the analysis of a boy in his latency period how early anxiety situations and their respective defenses are uncovered and dealt with according to the analytic technique of Melanie Klein.

The presenting complaints were severe inhibitions in learning, inability to get along with other children, and alternating persecutory and depressive trends. Deep unconscious cannibalistic and intra-uterine fantasies are discussed with the patient without working through the more superficial layers, as if ego psychology did not exist. Such an apparently too banal problem like masturbation guilt is never even mentioned. The case reads monotonously, the interpretations