ABSTRACT
Analytical psychology as elaborated by Jung and his immediate followers did not focus on the depth psychological aspects of early infant and childhood development. Freud and his followers made the imaginative leap required to link the two pivotal areas of analytic investigation. Analytical psychology was slow to follow suit, despite Jung's early and continued insistence on the importance of the relationship between analyst and patient, and his study of the Rosarium as a way of understanding the vicissitudes of the analytic couple. Jung's exploration of the bases of personality took a different tack from that followed early on by Freud in his understanding of the stages of personality development. Certain Jungian clinicians found the Kleinian development to be the most approachable of the psychoanalytic investigations into early mental life. Wilfred Bion showed how early forms of communication based on "projective identification" could be understood as normal forms of empathic processes between infant and caregiver.
