ABSTRACT
In our ®rst chapter (Chapter 14 in this volume) on numbers in psychoanalysis, we developed the supposition that numbers could be used in new ways to symbolize con®gurations of internal objects, links to objects, attacks on links and reparative efforts in the mind. We illustrated this through the case of an adolescent and his dreams, and through the example of the shared mentality of a small family group with two children.
