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in collaboration with Sara Lundberg, M.A., Randi Markowitz, B.A., M.Sc. and Frances Salo, LL.B.
THE DECISION TO STUDY THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS PAPER arose out of thinking in two areas. The first was the study of the development of object relationships (Edgcumbe and Burgner, 1972), (1975); (Burgner and Edgcumbe, 1972). Our examination of clinical material deriving from the phallic phase of drive development and the concomitant relationships of the phallic level (1975) led us to doubt whether the negative oedipal phase in girls occurs as a normal phenomenon in the form postulated by classical psychoanalytic