Ninetieth Session

Richard was waiting for Mrs K. at the corner of the road and jumped out at her from behind a tree. He said he had wanted to make fun, but could not keep up this attitude. He soon looked very depressed, and his eyes were red; however, he was not actually crying. He said he felt ‘wobbly’ in his tummy, though he had no indigestion, and did not know where this feeling came from. He added that this was the last week. When was he going to see Mrs K. at her lodgings? Then he explained that he meant they could do work there instead of in the playroom.

Mrs K. interpreted Richard's wish to get away from the playroom partly because he wanted to finish with her at a place—her lodgings—where he had not been destructive. It meant starting again anew, so as to keep Mrs K. as a live and good Mummy inside him. His mentioning the last week also expressed the fear of her death.

Richard made Drawing 73. It represented an aeroplane and he said it was flying to London. Mrs K. was on it and so was he. He added that the aeroplane looked like a person. He pointed to the landing wheels which were put one behind the other and said that here were two breasts. Then, pointing at the front part of the aeroplane, he said: ‘Here we sit together.’ After that he made a drawing of the bus going to ‘Y’, and asked when Mrs K. was coming to see them. Could she come one day this week when he went home—perhaps on Saturday? He so much wanted her to see the bus into which he changed, and why couldn't she come and see him at his home? He very much appealed to her to come.

Mrs K. said that she was sorry she could not come; but she might on her journey to London, when she went through the village where he changed buses, have a look at it.

Richard said about the bus which he had drawn that he had marked the place where he usually sat.

Mrs K. inquired about the two empty seats to the right of him, and the one empty seat on his left.

Richard said that to the right each seat was for two people.