ABSTRACT
Sue-Anne Pimlico was referred by the leader of a self-awareness group for women. In that woman’s workshop, Sue-Anne had suffered what seems to have been a temporary break with reality. The dream of being drugged and warding off seduction by a man to whom she was not married stayed with Sue-Ann like an undigested piece of food. Sue-Ann was puzzled to note that she felt disgust and anger instead of gratitude when the gift arrived. The counterpoints shame-envy again had to be worked through on an object-relational level when Sue-Ann remembered incest. Cindy Waugh thought of herself as a thoroughly modern woman, liberated and “in every way equal to men.” Ms. Waugh was so intent on preserving her “free woman” persona that she did not allow herself to look at the roots of her behavior.
