ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book underlines the different routes that can be researched to ascertain the influence that a certain Ortgeist and a certain Zeitgeist may have had on the participants in the CD and SD. There is no doubt that both the CD and the SD seem to form particularly ideal arenas for the large-scale use of psychoanalytical interpretations and explanations. In examining the various attempts to interpret nature that have been made by philosophers and scientists, Cohen and Nagel focus their attention on the personal attitudes of the researchers concerned. Spillius has, rightly, underlined the influence of Bion's theory of the mind. Rosenfeld's important work on narcissism and the psychotic transference and Segal's on symbol formation, together with Betty Joseph's, have deeply influenced the work of the younger generation of analysts such as M. Feldman, J. Steiner, Ronald Britton, and others.
