ABSTRACT
Regression may be reached for short moments, it cannot be maintained by the patient, and perhaps still less recognised by the analyst. Analysts working more or less according to the two methods just described will necessarily come to the conclusion that separate and particular objects are all-important for the human mind. Their everyday experiences will force upon their minds a theory of object relations which will be built on the model of ocnophilia. Unforeseen results of this procedure are: that we have developed a highly ocnophilic theory of object-relationships founded mainly on relationships to part-objects. A theory based prominently on the study of ambivalent relations to part objects, and embodying a great amount of unsatisfiable anger and rage on the one hand, and profound guilt feelings and abject contrition on the other. Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo is thus a memento equally to be borne in mind for the ocnophilic and the philobatic technique.
