Mary Target's paper is part of a return in British psychoanalysis to the question of sexuality, its origins and its manifestations (Budd 2001; Fonagy 2006). The return is needed because of a perceived down-playing of sexuality (as one of the drives) in object-relations and Kleinian theory. The sense is that the emphasis on internal objects and their relationships misses out something essentially bodily and driven in what it means to be human. Target describes this as a move, in clinical descriptions of the dynamic unconscious, away from ‘compromise solutions to developmental, psychosexual conflict’ (p. 518) to a focus on elements of relationship, in which the