Thirty-Second Session

Richard was very pleased when he met Mrs K. at the corner of the road; inside the playroom he seemed friendly and at ease. He turned on the electric fire and remarked that the room was cosy and

looked nice. He shut the windows, saying that it was nice inside but nasty outside (although the sun was not shining, the weather was not bad). Richard sat down and looked at Mrs K. expectantly.

Mrs K. interpreted that the room, which had appeared so terrible to him at one point yesterday, had improved during that session and still looked pleasant today; it had become cosy, warm—that is to say, alive—for him. This happened when he felt that he could revive dead babies and parents, as well as Mrs K., and he had expressed that feeling by colouring Drawing 21, which meant to him that he made it alive. The fish stood for Mrs K. and Mummy and their babies; as he had written on the drawing, they had all been calling for help. Mrs K. also reminded him that even on the previous day, when he had been so unhappy and frightened, he had become happier when he thought that Mrs A.'s hens had had chicks,1 because they also stood for the babies he wished to give his mother.

Richard agreed and said that he would very much like to give babies to his mother. He added that Mummy had five sons: Paul, himself, Bobby, and the two canaries, who were both boys.

Mrs K. interpreted that since Bobby and the canaries belonged to Richard, he felt he had given Mummy three sons.

Richard agreed, but became anxious. He said that the canaries quarrelled a lot and he was sure that if one had a wife the other would be jealous and they would quarrel still more.

Mrs K. interpreted his jealousy because Mummy was Daddy's wife; Richard got on better with Paul than with his father, since Paul, like himself, had no wife. But he thought he and Paul were not good sons because they quarrelled. Mrs K. also referred to Richard's jealousy of her patients and of her husband.

Richard, with some hesi