ABSTRACT
During the next four years there were various signposts that were to become crucial issues for me, although I did not always recognize them at the time. For instance, in 1947 I was asked to contribute to a symposium on ‘black’ at the Tavistock Clinic. I spoke about a child patient who, when painting the roof of a house black, had said, ‘There’s lovely shiny black and there’s horrid black.’ He also once said to me, ‘I wish you and I were the same person.’
