Appendices

As explained in the Introduction, this book has grown in the milieu of lectures, seminars and supervisions, to some extent separated from the clinical work from which theoretical contributions to psycho-analytic literature derive. As a consequence a certain asynchrony is sometimes evident in the text in that reference is made to theoretical ideas which have not as yet taken their place in the literature.

In the following section these ideas and areas of development will be expanded, as a holding method, until future publications can give them more definition.

These problems of analytic method and process are of special interest from the structural point of view and will be dealt with extensively by Dr. H. Rosenfeld in a future publication, which will carry forward the work begun in his paper, “An Investigation of the Need of Neurotic and Psychotic Patients to Act Out During Analysis.”*

In the text I have referred to a particular aspect of acting-out of transference processes in children, of various ages and how these patterns of acting-out contribute form to their peer-relations and spontaneous group formation.

The latency child has a strong tendency to act-out his relations to internal parents and siblings, these latter also being parts of the self, by forming groups in which the pattern of family life and of adult social and political structure are mirrored. His clubs, secret societies and teams tend to be stable as regards roles, with more aggressive and imaginative children as leaders (parental functions) while weaker, more passive, younger or less intelligent children are dragooned into submission to the rules and procedures laid down