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This article is an account of Fordham's personal journey and development as a Jungian analyst much influenced from the 1930s onwards by Kleinian and post-Kleinian ideas. It is soon to appear in a book of the same name, edited by Barry and Karen Proner.
Fordham tells of his discovery of first in The Psychoanalysis of Children (1932) and of his own subsequent development of play techniques with children, combining Kleinian concepts and methods with theories of the archetype, of the collective unconscious and of symbol formation. Specifically, he refers to his developing theory of deintegration and integration, with obvious parallels to Klein's and later Bion's accounts of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions and their developmentally necessary dynamic oscillation. This theory seems to me to have close kinship, too, with Bion's concept of catastrophic change. He writes, too, of his growing appreciation in his work with adults of the obvious parallels as well as differences between archetypes, and unconscious fantasy and internal objects - ‘a different idiom but a rather close analogy’, to use his words.