My gratitude and thanks are due to the following: to my patients, whose work in their analyses enabled mine; to my husband, as always, for his unfailing support and for his helpful criticism; to Betty Joseph and Elizabeth Spillius, who read the whole manuscript, in the case of some chapters, several drafts, and whose comments were invaluable; to Riccardo Steiner for help with the first two chapters and for acquainting me with the significance of some of Freud’s formulations in German, which were not fully conveyed in the English translation; to Richard Holmes for permission to quote from his book Footsteps; and finally to Ann Jameson and her computer who between them gave me excellent secretarial services, and compiled and checked the references; and to Albert Dickson for compiling the index.