ABSTRACT
In her analysis Pailthorpe details a prose-poem called ‘Reincarnation’ She endeavors to show predominantly two factors. First, the origin of thought processes. Second, the value of considering not only every word that is uttered during analysis, but also all the products of pen and pencil which are brought to analysis by the patient. The process of birth, the cataclysmic rat-a-tat of new happenings, the rapid impingement of an infinite variety of new sensations upon the body that had formerly known nothing but the condition of perfect peace, must leave lasting traces in the mind of the infant. All living tissue reacts to that which impinges upon it. The mind, as such, begins to function from the moment of the first “not-me” experience. From infancy it closely observes everything that happens within its consciousness and once it reaches its conclusions, applies its findings to every-day life.
