ABSTRACT
The transitional object that is both part of the infant and part of the mother acquires the new status called "possession." There is that which belongs to the developing powers of the infant, developing co-ordination, and a gradual enrichment of sensibility. There is the use of the thumb or fingers which may persist and there may or may not be an affectionate caressing of some part of the face or some part of the mother or of an object going on at the same time. One mother is good and another bad at letting a real object be just where the infant is hallucinating an object so that in fact the infant gains the illusion that the world can be created and that what is created is the world. Infants and children and adults take external reality in, as clothing for their dreams, and they project themselves into external objects and people and enrich external reality by their imaginative perceptions.
