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Certain contradictions and confusions must now be considered even though present knowledge may be inadequate for their resolution. First I propose to review the genetic axis in the light of the aspect of projective identification I have represented by ♀♂. Anticipating what I have to say in Chapter 17, I shall assume that the operation ♀♂ is benign and, as I have suggested, that it is responsible for the developments implied by the genetic ordering of the lettered axis, A to H. (To understand what I mean by the benign operation of ♀♂ see the model on page 33.) Inspection of A to H in the light of ♀♂ shows that the categories have a common relation to each other in that each category depends on changes, in the previous category, that fit it to operate as a preconception as well as a record. Thus E1 depends on mating D1 with a realization that enables the formation of a conception which is in turn capable of leading to F1. Putting this in other terms the element represented by D1 say, is increasing the scope of its function of notation in such a way that its function of attention (the terms ‘notation’ and ‘attention’ being employed in the sense used by Freud1) is also increased. Using the table to say this again in a different way, D1 develops through the stages represented by D3 and D4 to become E1.
The mechanics of change from one to another of the phases represented by A to H may thus be represented by ♀♂.2 The link ♀♂ between the phases represented by categories A to H, is mechanical. What of the dynamic link? That is represented by L, H and K. The benignity of the operation ♀♂ will depend on the nature of the dynamic link.