ABSTRACT
This case presentation is an example (albeit my version) of the application of standard Kleinian technique—with intimations of Bion—with regard to the analysis of a man who alternated between the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions but largely dwelt in the former. The second and third presentations demonstrate more of Bion’s (1962b) reverie, which constitutes both an extension and a transmutation of Kleinian technique. Shelley Alhanati, who was trained at a Kleinian institute in Los Angeles, whose own training analyst had been analysed by Bion, and whose formal institute superior I was, is one who utilizes her own unconscious somato-psychic “alpha-function” in a state of reverie with her analysands to enable her to transform her analysands’ “beta-elements” (raw, inchoate, unmentalized proto-emotions) into her own personal O—that is into her own corresponding personal emotions—and from there once again into useful, tolerable knowledge (“K”) as interpretations to her analysands.
