Hinshelwood R D
Psyche (Stuttg). 1996 Jun;50(6):523-47.
Although the concept of "inner objects" developed by Melanie Klein is hardly a major object of discussion today, it caused a furore in the ranks of the British Psychoanalytical Society in the thirties and forties. Notably the analysts from Vienna were unable to agree to the existence of inner objects engendered via processes of internalisation. The author traces the course of these discussions of a clinical problem and the confusion they caused, placing them at the same time in a specific historical context. He sees the controversy as the expression of conflicts and fears unsettling the British Psychoanalytical Society during that period, caused on the one hand by the necessary integration of the exiled Freud family and on the other by tensions within its own ranks leading ultimately to a division of the Society and the constitution of the Klein Group.
尽管梅兰妮·克莱因提出的“内在客体”概念如今已几乎不再是主要的讨论对象，但在二三十年代和四十年代，它在英国精神分析学会内部引发了轩然大波。值得注意的是，来自维也纳的分析师们无法认同通过内化过程产生的内在客体的存在。作者追溯了这些关于一个临床问题的讨论历程以及它们所引发的混乱，同时将其置于特定的历史背景中。他认为这场争议是那个时期困扰英国精神分析学会的冲突和恐惧的表现，一方面是由于流亡的弗洛伊德家族的必要整合，另一方面是其内部的紧张关系，最终导致了学会的分裂和克莱因团体的形成。
