ABSTRACT
This article was originally a paper read at the meeting of the Medical Section of the British Psychological Society in May 1955, based on an earlier paper presented at a Symposium on Symbolism at St Anne's House, London, in November 1954, and was first published in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 38, 391-7. The postscript, 1979, was first published in The Work of Hanna Segal, New York: Jason Aronson (1981) 60-5.
