ABSTRACT
Seeds of rivalry and of open conflict between Caribbean Africans and migrants from India were sown in the period immediately following the abolition of slavery. G was troubled most of all by the loss of the sense of purpose which had brought her to the UK, and by the sheer reality of the traumatic changes which she had been unable to control. As with her siblings, she tried desperately to preserve her loving feelings towards them, but found herself entirely unable to go into work and be in the same room with them. Her solution to the Oedipus complex had been to assume his place in relation to her mother, but-in this case-she was confronted with a subsequent dilemma of not possessing the penis with which she might satisfy her mother. G’s expectation was that psychotherapy would make everything better within a month or two, and she was quite appalled at the prospect of a longer-term commitment.
