Forty-Third Session

Richard met Mrs K. outside the playroom. When in the room, he at once asked for the drawings and looked at 27 which he had made on the previous day. He put out his fleet in battle order and spoke proudly of the ‘grand fleet’.… He was very pleased with the R.A.F., which had again ‘battered’ Germany, and also said that Russia seemed to be doing well. He arranged the destroyers in one line in the centre, followed by the submarines; the cruisers, Nelson and Rodney, were on the right and left of the destroyers. Looking at Mrs K., he said that he was very fond of her, he liked her eyes very much.

Mrs K. interpreted that she had again come to stand for the good Mummy because his fear—which had been so strong in the last few days—of her injured and horrible inside, the ‘pig-sty’ Mummy, had diminished (Note I). Mrs K. also referred to what she had said yesterday about Drawing 27.

Richard now looked with great interest at this drawing, while on the previous day he had appeared not to listen to Mrs K.'s interpretation of it. He pointed out that to the left the people were acually fairly equal and to the right there was plenty of the light-blue Mummy. Richard was surrounding her, but a little of Paul had also entered. Then he remarked that in the middle she was full of the dangerous Hitler-Daddy and of himself (who, as Mrs K. had reminded him, was also the suspect Russians).

Mrs K. pointed out that the ‘grand fleet’ was himself, having the whole family inside and controlling them. He had now separated the parents. Therefore there could be no sexual intercourse and no fight. They were supposed to guard and protect him, being on his right and left, but also to be commanded by him. Mrs K. reminded him that on the previous day he had shown, by sucking and biting the pencil and in other ways, that he felt he had eaten up Daddy's penis—the delicious meat of the monster; but this implied also that he could take in his parents and the whole family in a less fri