ABSTRACT
The evolution of the Model of the Mind which underlies the observation and thoughts of psychoanalysts has been a quiet and covert one in many respects but its nodal points are clearly marked by the progression Anna Freud- Karl Abraham- Melanie Klein- Wilfred Bion. The Bionic transformation, which divides mental life into the symbolic and non-symbolic areas, and places its emphasis on the mind as an instrument for thinking about emotional experiences, has only began to be felt in the consulting rooms. The aesthetic experience of the mother with her baby is ordinary, regular, customary, for it has millennia behind it, since man saw the world "as" beautiful. By 1945 the Kleinian model had achieved this modification of the evolutionary simile of ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny, on the basis of a strengthened position for identification processes and thus of a view of development which emphasized relationship with objects rather than anything equivalent to survival of the fittest.
