ABSTRACT
The term “transformation” may mislead unless the limitations of the implication of “form” are recognized. In painting, in geometry, it is safe to think in terms of form, but the author is concerned with a function of personality in the process of being represented and it may introduce errors to suppose that a function of personality has a form. Subsequent remarks meant that what had been taking place in the session was a pictorial representation, an externalization of a visual image, not likely to be regarded by the author as good and therefore evacuated by the author with such force that this fragment of his personality would be projected as far away from the author as Durham is from London. The sense of being at a loss, which will be apparent to the reader, is not quite so profound in the consulting room as the written account makes it appear.
