ABSTRACT
For Caroline to bring the author's present was a most meaningful move. Literally – she brought something from the outside world to the “inside”. It was concrete proof that her fear of contamination, of the loss of boundaries, had subsided considerably. She carried into the clinic a very large framed picture of an owl with big staring eyes sitting on a branch. It was hand-embroidered with the smallest of stitches executed with utmost precision. Caroline’s fear of contamination had subsided to a degree, but she continued to separate words and at times even syllables with long pauses in her use of spoken language with the author. Caroline, in her expression of both the need for the presence of a third person and for space is letting the author knows of the dangers of symbiosis and of incest that loom as threats for her when only the two of us are left together.
