ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author tries to talk about the analysis of a young patient of him, Hugh, in the light of Wilfred Bion's "Attacks on linking”. Hugh with a psychosis who came mentally broken down, after three years of analysis, left able to resume his life and his education, while at the same time keeping an intense relationship with Frankenstein. In the early sessions, Hugh was in a space of evacuated small particles and big looming things like the hand pointing a finger he saw in a shadow on the wall—a bizarre object in Bion's sense. Internally, he has a murderous superego and relentless pursuing objects, full with his projections of pride and narcissism; externally, he carries about with him a Frankenstein mask locked up in a little suitcase—an artefact always there for a needed escape by projective identification.