In this article, the author retraces her experience of the dawning and development of Kleinian and post-Kleinian psychoanalysis in Lebanon. The influence of Swiss, French and British thought was decisive in it for the clinical theory and practice with adults and children. Later on, the post-Bionian elaborations of Italian authors enriched and condensed Freud’s conceptualization of the drives, and the specifically Kleinian conceptualization of early phantasies and the internal world, by offering access to a theory of thinking and reverie in analysis. Evolving outside the other psychoanalytic currents in Lebanon, Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought gradually forged links with them at the beginning of the 1990s in order to form at the Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis an evolving practice alongside other conceptions of the mind.