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In recent years, the international psychoanalytical literature has produced reports of various nature based on autobiographic elements. Margaret Little (1990) writes of her long analytic experience with Winnicott, and the supervision of a clinical case is the theme of Heller's (1990) A Child Analysis with Anna Freud.
As in other autobiographic papers, the chief element of interest in Stockdale's work probably lies in its being the product of a situation in which psychoanalysis and transference are part of everyday experience and knowledge, as Bollas (1990) points out: “Did Freud know that the structure of the analytical process could evoke the transference of so many different if interconnected alliances: of foetus inside womb, infant inside maternal world, child inside the law of the father, child inside family complexity, self inside dream, addressee inside the textures of the ‘I's’ discourses? Did Freud know the extent and range of what he invoked by the creation of the analytical space?”
It is our daily experience to notice the deep interest the analysand has to understand how the analyst perceives him. For the patient is is like looking once more into mother's eyes in search of his reflected image, and through those eyes, seeing himself. As Winnicott (1967, p. 117) so aptly put it: “… the patient will find his or her own self, and will be able to exist and feel real. Feeling