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| Acknowledgements | ix |
| Introduction | xi |
| 1. Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena | 1 |
| 2. Dreaming, Fantasying, and Living: A Case-history describing a Primary Dissociation | 26 |
| 3. Playing A Theoretical Statement | 38 |
| 4. Playing: Creative Activity and the Search for the Self | 53 |
| 5. Creativity and its Origins | 65 |
| 6. The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications | 86 |
| 7. The Location of Cultural Experience | 95 |
| 8. The Place where we Live | 104 |
| 9. Mirror-role of Mother and Family in Child Development | 111 |
| 10. Interrelating apart from Instinctual Drive and in terms of Cross-identifications | 119 |
| 11. Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development and their Implications for Higher Education | 138 |
| Tailpiece | 151 |
| References | 153 |
I wish to thank Mrs Joyce Coles for her help in the preparation of the manuscript.
Also, I am much indebted to Masud Khan for his constructive criticisms of my writings and for his always being (as it seems to me) available when a practical suggestion is needed.
I have expressed my gratitude to my patients in my dedication.
For permission to reproduce material that has already appeared in print, thanks are due to the following: the Editor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; the Editor of Forum; the Editor of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis; the Editor of Pediatrics; the Editor of the International Library of Psycho-Analysis; Dr Peter Lomas; and the Hogarth Press Ltd, London.