ABSTRACT
When the patient finds himself in the depressive position, she/he is receptive to one's interpretations. When the patient is totally in the paranoid-schizoid world, and in most need of interpretations, there doesn’t seem to be anyone there who hears what one have to say. Sigmund Freud writes in An Outline of Psycho-analysis (1938): “We assume that mental life is the function of an apparatus to which we ascribe the characteristics of being extended in space”. He talks about space also in connection to dreams and dream interpretation. Britton (1989) describes two types of difficulty in accepting the Oedipus complex. The first contains the inability to internalize the triangular situation resulting in the inability to integrate observations and experience. The other is what he calls the oedipal illusions, something he compares to Steiner’s conception of “a blind eye” (1985), a defense that denies what has actually been seen.
