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Apart from such incidental factors as being published in the same series by authors who each write introductions for the other's book, what these volumes have most in common is their unfettered allegiance to the psychoanalytic perspectives of Melanie Klein. This allegiance may seem to be at once an enabling resource and a limiting orthodoxy to those whose psychoanalytic orientation extends beyond the pale of Kleinian thought. What is in any case beyond question is that both authors write with great authority, especially as clinicians, about matters of fundamental concern to the psychoanalytic community.
Hanna Segal deals with the relationship of day-dreaming, night-dreaming, play, symbolism, imagination, art, and object relations. She addresses in particular the relationship of these things to phantasy, a crucial concept in this volume because it appears to function as a kind of universal solvent that can assimilate all of the other elements. The book as a whole does not advance any particular hypothesis about these matters, yet it reads well as an integrated study insofar as it continuously pursues insight into the connections persisting among the phenomena mentioned. This volume appears to be addressed to a mixed audience, being written