ABSTRACT
This is a work of integration. It is both a claim for ‘integration’ as a central idea in development; and also an attempt to integrate Jungian and Kleinian ideas. In fact Elizabeth Urban’s theme, ‘Jungian concepts relevant to integration and repair’ (p. 20) takes the clinical phenomenology of a patient’s integration as the node around which to integrate certain schools of thought. From Jung she takes the notion of ‘self’ as the locus of the experience of wholeness; and from Klein the notions of splitting and integration. I will make some initial comments on theory; and devote the greater part of my space to Ruthie, the child patient whose case Elizabeth Urban uses as a test for the key role of integration which could bring Jung and Klein into line.
