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I Have Chosen to write on the subject of sexual perversions partly because there is virtually no literature on the subject from Jungian analysts. Besides that, I am encouraged to make the attempt because the late Kenneth Lambert, for whom this paper was originally written and delivered at a memorial meeting in Cambridge, was one of the few Jungians who contributed to a small volume on paedophilia. His article reached a high standard, so I can be said to be following his lead and thus pay some tribute to him. Like myself, he had been influenced not only by Jung but also by the English school of psychoanalysis and especially by Klein, Bion and Meltzer, though I am not sure that he assimilated much of Meltzer's essay Sexual States of Mind (11). In addition, we both paid particular attention to childhood and infancy. A glance at the chapter headings of his book, Analysis Repair and Individuation (10), reveals one more aspect of our common ground: our interest in the interaction between analyst and patient: ‘Resistance and counter-resistance’, ‘Reconstruction’, ‘Transference and countertransference’, ‘Dreams and dreaming’. He was concerned with the practice of analytical psychology set within the concept of the self as the transcendent function. The self stands behind the process of individuation, dependent not only on the ego but also on a dynamic concept of the organism integrating and deintegrating. These studies by Kenneth Lambert greatly furthered the work of what has come to be called the London school of analytical psychology based on the Society of Analytical Psychology.
Though Jung's later writings pay little attention to infancy and childhood, both Kenneth Lambert and myself have done so and understood the importance of infantile sexuality in the genesis of perversions. Jung gave little indication that he thought either subject