ABSTRACT
This was written in 1943 as my membership paper of the British Pyscho-Analytical Society, the work was supervised by Melanie Klein, since in those days one was permitted do a membership paper on a supervised patient.1 Also it was written only a year and a half after I qualified for associate membership, being pushed into doing it so soon because of the shortage of training analysts, so many being away doing war work. It was read in the basement of 116 Gloucester Place, the ceiling of the room being supported with wooden struts because of the bombing. In fact the attack on London by the V1 German bombs had begun that very day.
