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6th October 1955.
Dear Dr. Segal:
While we were talking last night I was particularly interested in your talking about a third area of operation in the communication between analyst and patient. I expect I have got the wording wrong but you will remember the part that I am referring to. You can imagine that I find it rather exciting to watch this idea being developed out of clinical material. I think that there is a very great deal to be got out of the study of what you were talking about and I hope that you will make a special point of developing what you were talking about into a paper. You know, of course, that I am interested in this because of my own attempt represented in the paper Transitional Phenomena etc.
Another thing about what you said was that it continued the theme of the essential difficulty of communication which belongs to the psychotic and which I suppose lies at the basis of a great deal of psychotic illness. I am sorry to say that Bion slurred over this point but he had plenty of other things to talk about so that we can forgive him.
Don't bother to answer.
Yours,
D. W. Winnicott.