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Kimberly Brubaker Brandley’s Newbery honored novel, The War that Saved My Life, is a book about a girl named Ada physically and psychically escaping from her mother’s abuse caused by the deformity of her foot. In the light of Kleinian study, Ada feels both envy and guilty towards her mother, which means that she envies the creativity of her mother’s breast and in the process of extorting it, she feels guilty by having a thought of attacking her mother. When moving out from London to Kent, Ada’s long journey to getting away from her mother imago to create her own identity on her own has started. In the mean time, Ada shows her linguistic progress alongside structuring her subjectivity. Unconsciously, her eventual aim is to get over her fear of loss her mother, and she achieves it by symbolical matricide in Kristeva’s term. (Gyeongsang National University, Hannam University)