ABSTRACT
A woman who has been bothered by these particular things eventually comes to psychoanalysis, an ill person who wants to do something about it. For some children it is really important that one person sees the body and the psychology as one thing. With every child it is going on all the time, consolidating positions, which can always be lost and gained again. A child has a bilious attack and becomes like death, flabby and absent. Let us simplify the matter of primitive development and say there are three things which can be separated out. One is making contact with reality. All the bits and pieces go to make the human being. How important it is at such a stage that the mother has the child in her mind as a whole person, because the child can then afford to be in pieces.
