The girl’s envy and jealousy were transformed into unselfishness and thoughtfulness for others. - Tom Butler-Bowdon

we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick.

We are actually programmed to get satisfaction and pleasure from discovery and creativity, he says, because its results lead to our survival as a species.

Melanie Klein focused on how a “schizoid” personality could develop as the result of an infant’s relations with its mother in the first year of life, although she noted that most people grow out of this and establish healthy relations with themselves and the world.