ABSTRACT
This paper was first given at a Melanie Klein conference on ‘The Oedipus complex today: clinical implications’, at the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College, London on 19 September 1987. It is being published simultaneously here and in R.Britton, M.Feldman and E. O'Shaughnessy, The Oedipus Complex Today: Clinical Implications, London: H.Karnac Books.
