ABSTRACT
Pearl King has played an increasingly vital part in the world of psychoanalysis, working her way from student to President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, contributing vastly to work in the IPA and to every existent aspect of organisation and functioning of the British Society. There are a number of ways in which changes in psychoanalytical language occur. The first group of ones that are entirely acceptable are those for which new terms are added to the existing vocabulary because they are necessary for naming genuinely new ideas. Like any growing body of knowledge and ideas, psychoanalysis has its own concepts expressed in its own terminology, and there can be absolutely no argument against these inevitably expanding to accommodate new knowledge and new ideas. The first examples of changes in psychoanalytic vocabulary naturally came with Sigmund Freud, who, as his creative ideas developed and evolved, used some terms in new ways so that their meanings stretched.
