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For the “Analyst's Notepad” Section, the Editors welcome the contribution of brief clinical vignettes demonstrating nascent ideas that may not be ready for more formal presentation. We hope also that this space might become a forum in which an exchange of ideas and clinical experiences might take place, proceeding responsively from issue to issue. Readers are invited, therefore, to submit both original and responsive contributions without regard to the theme of any particular issue.
Winnicott (1953) coined the phrase “transitional object” to refer to that object chosen by the infant as his or her first “not me” possession. Freud (1914) postulated a primary narcissism in everyone, and discussed loving according to the narcissistic type as loving what oneself is, was, would want to be, or was once part of oneself. Annie Reich (1953), building on Freud's definition, described narcissistic object choice in women as entailing a choice of love object representing what they wanted to be, in the form of an object different from