title: Varieties of envious experience.
abstract: This paper discusses Melanie Klein's use of the concept of envy and some of the criticisms of it. Two ways of experiencing envy, ego-dystonic and impenitent, are described and illustrated in clinical detail. The paper concludes with a description of a model of the relation of giving and receiving, especially of the conscious and unconscious feelings involved in giving and receiving, for I believe that it is in this relation and its internalisation that envy is particularly likely to be aroused, diminished, exacerbated, or perpetuated.
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Spillius
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004532:Ego; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007578:Jealousy; D008297:Male; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy