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The Editor regrets that by a typographical error the last three paragraphs and references of Dr. Little's article on pp. 377–384 of this Volume were omitted. Their text is as follows:
Freud quotes Robertson Smith (Kinship and Marriage, 1885) 'Identifications which lie at the root of clan feeling rest upon the recognition of a common substance, and may even therefore be brought about by a meal eaten in common.' Here again we have the substance, the concrete thing, and bodily experience. The Christian idea of Communion rests upon the concrete symbols of bread and wine which are believed to provide a means of resurrection after death, i.e. survival of the body.
I know that this could be understood in terms of relationship of an oral kind, but I want to remind you of the two points from which I started: (i) the attempts made by patients to establish union or identity with the analyst, and (ii) the importance for them of body happenings.
To sum up:
Within an individual both survival and the ability to find objects with which relationships can be formed depend upon the existence of a unity which comes from the entity mother-infant (or analyst-analysand). From it a rhythm of differentiation and reassimilation or integration comes. It provides the 'stillness at the centre' which allows of movement and perception; it is the sine qua non for living continuously in one's body, for having an identity, and for being identical with, and able to make assertion or statement of, oneself.