ABSTRACT

Written after R. Money-Kyrle's death in July 1980, this paper deals with aspects of emotional sympathy and alienation between individuals and demonstrates in a clinical example the use of "misconception"—an idea developed by Money-Kyrle in his 1968 paper on "Cognitive Development"—as a new conceptual tool. This paper has two endings, the second of which was included in the publication of the paper in the Scientific Bulletin of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, as an appreciation of Money-Kyrle's contribution to psychoanalysis.