...destructive and uncomfortable is that it threatens to hurt that which it wants and needs most. Klein says “there are very pertinent psychological reasons...harms the good object which is the source of life”. She agrees with Chaucer, who, in The parson's tale, says “it is certain that envy is the worst sin...

...principle that kills fertility. In Envy and Gratitude, the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein argues that envy "is unconsciously felt to be the greatest sin of all,...harms the good object which is the source of life."* The silence of envy, in the manner of the silence of the mafiosi, is actually part of a language, or...

...Mitchell put it simply: “Envy destroys the possibility for hope.”¿ For this reason Klein states that there are very pertinent psychological reasons why...consistent with the view described by Chaucer in The Parsons Tale: “It is certain that envy is the worst sin that is; for all other sins are sins only...