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This fourth week of analysis is also rather a splendid one and raises some interesting theoretical problems regarding obsessionality. The question of obsessional mechanisms is a puzzling and difficult aspect of Mrs Klein's work, since it is nowhere particularly set out. This is a week again punctuated by a disturbance in the setting. The mother's illness interfered in the third week. This week, in the second session, Mrs Klein has to take him to her lodgings and this also interferes in some way, although it is not so clear how and she takes it up very little.
The analysis is already going quite smoothly; she is working very confidently with him, sorting things out and throwing things away, and turning up new ideas. The changes in the formulation are changes in her ideas and attitude about the meaning of the material, but a lot of it has to be attributed to the deepening of the transference relationship so that it is more clearly differentiated from Richard's relationships at home to his parents, brother and Bobby. This is reflected very clearly in the way Mrs Klein interprets to him. The mode of presentation of the material keeps changing; he brings the fleet and then he draws, he plays with the toys and squeezes the football, he wanders about the room. In between he talks to Mrs Klein, confiding in her little things John said (that he wished she were dead), telling her a dream in the fourth session and being very confiding also about the paranoid suspicions about her. These are now becoming much more intense because they are also juxtaposed to the building up of a much more genuine positive transference. One still feels Richard to be disingenuous at times. It mainly comes out with regard to the drawing, when he starts saying why there are two of this and three of that, or one of the other. His sincerity is not so convincing but most of the time he works closely with her. Anecdotal material from his life outside the consulting room begins to enter, like the business