Imprisoned Pain and Its Transformation

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IMPRISONED PAIN
AND ITS TRANSFORMATION
Sydney Klein
IMPRISONED PAIN
AND ITS TRANSFORMATION
A Festschrift for
H. Sydney Klein
Edited by
loan Symington
London & New York
KARNAC BOOKS
First published in 2000 by
H. Karnac (Books) Ltd., 58 Gloucester Road, London SW7 4QY
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Arrangement, Introduction, chapter 14 copyright O 2000 Joan Symington;
chapter 1 copyright O 2000 Anne Alvarez; chapter 2 copyright O 2000
Gabriella Grauso; chapter 3 copyright O 2000 Silvia Oclander-Goldie; chapter
4 copyright O 2000 Gabriele Pasquali; chapter 5 copyright O 2000 Kate
Barrows; chapter 6 copyright O 2000 Maria Rhode; chapter 7 copyright O
2000 Mauro Morra; chapter 8 copyright O 2000 Edna O'Shaughnessy; chapter
9 copyright O 2000 Ruth Safier; chapter 10 copyright O 2000 Margaret Cohen;
chapter 11 copyright O 2000 Michael Feldman; chapter 12 copyright O 2000
Patricia Daniel; chapter 13 copyright O 2000 Leslie Sohn
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
CONTRIBUTORS ix
Introduction
1 Moral imperatives in work with borderline children:
the grammar of wishes and the grammar of needs
Anne Alvarez 5
2 Unconscious phantasy and knowledge:
a case study
Gabriella Grauso
3 Catastrophe, containment, and manic defences
Silvia Oclander-Goldie 4 1
4 The sigruficance of perversion: to prevent intimacy
Gabriele Pasquali 57
v i CONTENTS
5 Shadow lives: a discussion of Reading in the Dark,
a novel by Seamus Deane
Kate Barrows
6 On using an alphabet:
recombining separable components
Maria Rhode
7 Some reflections on comparing
obsessional neurosis and autism
Mauro Morra
8 The anal organization of the instincts:
a note on theories past and present
Edna O'Shaughnessy
9 When the bough breaks:
working with parents and infants
Ruth Safier
10 Observing babies and supporting the staff
Margaret Cohen
11 Projective identification: the analyst's involvement
Michael Feldman
12 Psychic turbulence
Patricia Daniel
13 The concept of the envious/jealous superego
Leslie Sohn
14 Frozen pain
Joan Symington
REFERENCES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First I would like to thank Maria Rhode, without whose enthusi-
asm and readiness to contact contributors this Festschrift would
not have evolved.
My grateful thanks go to each of the authors, all of whom
expressed a warm interest in the project and who have generously
written new chapters for the Festschrift or else willingly contrib-
uted papers previously written.
A number of people were very helpful in providing back-
ground details. These include Isabel Menzies Lyth, Leslie Sohn,
Donald Meltzer, Kate Barrows, and Iain Dresser. Margot Waddell
interviewed Leslie Sohn for this and also tape-recorded the first
draft of his chapter.
Special thanks go to Marie Spruth for all her secretarial assist-
ance, including the difficult task of trying to decipher tapes. She
has held the book together both in her mind and on her computer.
Finally but not least, I want to thank my husband Neville for
his constant good advice and discerning criticism.
viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Acknowledgements are due to the following:
The Analytic Press, Inc., for permission to reprint Anne Alvarez'
paper, "Projective identification as a communication", from
Psychoanalytic Dialogues 7 (1997, 6): 753-768.
The international Journal of Psycho-Analysis, for permission to
reprint Michael Feldman's paper, "Projective identification:
the analyst's involvement" from IJPA, 78 (1997).
CONTRIBUTORS
ANNEA LVARE(MZ .A. M. A.C.P.) is Consultant Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapist and Co-convenor of the Autism Workshop at
the Tavistock Clinic, London. She is also Scientific Consultant to
the Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Research with Children with
Pervasive Developmental Disorder at the University of Paris. One
of her most recent publications is the book Autism and Personality:
Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop co-authored with S.
Read.
Mrs KATEB ARROWreSa d English Literature at Cambridge and later
went on to train as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic
and became a Member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society.
She had her training analysis with Dr Sydney Klein. She now
works in private practice in Bristol.
MARGARECIO. HENre ad philosophy at University College London
and trained as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. Dr
Sydney Klein was her analyst. She has worked at the Tavistock
Clinic, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and at