ABSTRACT
The work of Bion has enabled analysts to understand the significance of the impact of emotional factors on the process of developing a capacity for thoughts, in early development as in the analytic setting. Paranoid attitudes and transferential attacks from parents are part of the work of the child analyst. The parents' vulnerability to their child's unconscious processes, and their sensitivity towards the child analyst's intervention, can make the interaction between parents and therapist very difficult at times. Some parents have negative reactions to the child's reality, and will eventually project into the child analyst their despair and narcissistic conflicts. Parents often feel that they are being hurt by consulting for symptoms in their child. Another goal is the libidinisation of the interactions with children in analysis or dyadic therapy: to stay in conjunction with infantile sexuality, to maintain the conditions for the emergence of creativity, while dealing with aggression in the transference, even with very young children and babies.
