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Verbal, Paraverbal and Nonverbal Language in the Analysis of Children. The Repetition Compulsion and Unconscious Fantasies. Arminda Aberastury. Pp. 477-500.
Aberastury presents the clinical case history of a girl in treatment from childhood to adolescence. In addition to the normal conflicts of an adolescent (the girl friends, the boy friends, the parents' criticisms, the anxiety about clothes, skin, and body, the rebellion and wish for adulthood), the child seemed to have a compulsion to collect dogs and cats. Time and again during analytic sessions, she reported on caring for her animals and supplying them with food and love,