The Anna Freud-Melanie Klein Controversies developed in a context of war and bore its traces. The British group was confronted with external destructiveness that exacerbated internal conflicts, while Freud's death led to a hardening of positions and provoked manic defensive movements. The debates were intended to be rational, but they revealed their roots in the drives and phantasy and laid bare the libidinal and transference issues that interfered with the epistemological questions raised. History, like the scene of the Controversies, has shown that the god Logos is in reality a neutral power that can be used indifferently to bind or destroy. The Controversies can be interpreted as an unconscious and group staging of a conflict, personal to each individual, between the psychic background and adaptation to reality.