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Detailed notes for this session are missing. It was possible to a certain extent to reconstruct the essence of what happened on that day, partly by relying on memory, and partly by deductions from the material of the sessions following and preceding it.
Richard was in a state of strong anxiety and very difficult to control. He hammered the floor forcefully and spilled a lot of water in the kitchen; he had also been cutting the table with his knife. There had already been a good deal of this in the Eighty-first Session, but his obviously violent feelings following the piano-playing had still been up to a point restrained. Now they were much more strongly expressed. In the present session he again asked for a change of times, which Mrs K. could not arrange. This aroused a great sense of grievance in him, as well as rage and despair. He became so violent that Mrs K. had to restrain him and also, at one point, became impatient with him which, being unusual, frightened him very much.
The contents of his suitcase played an important role. He had bought a lobster to take home, and this lobster appeared as a doubtful object in the analysis. First he spoke of it as a delectable food, looking forward to eating it, but soon he seemed to get angry with it and attacked it violently with his knife.
Mrs K. interpreted that the lobster was linked with the octopus of the earlier sessions which he (the suitcase representing his inside) as well as Mrs K. and Mummy contained. When he forcefully hammered the floor, that meant breaking it open and taking out from his mother his father's bad penis; it also expressed his distrust and anger towards the analyst who had turned into the ‘brute’-Mummy—particularly after having shown impatience.