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An interesting week, but again it is a week that is interfered with because, on the Tuesday, Mrs Klein tells Richard that her trip to London is to start at the end of the week. He does not really react to this information until Thursday, and then on Friday and Saturday it strikes him terribly. So it is another one of those weeks in which the setting has been interfered with - the mother's illness, Mrs Klein going away, the playroom being locked so that she has to take him to her lodgings. There is hardly a week that has not been interfered with in some way, but it is very instructive to see how the interferences and the analytic process somehow mingle with one another.
By this time in the analysis almost all Richard's insincerity has dropped away, at least temporarily, and this is a week in which there is very little resistance to the analytical work. His participation has become somehow less formalized; although he plays with the fleet and draws a few empire drawings, the really important things that happen just erupt - suddenly he digs in Mrs Klein's bag; he rushes out of the room into the kitchen and squirts the water; emotionality pours from him, looking up at her eyes, saying how he loves her. This analysis is going at full pace, and Richard is passionately involved in it, already feeling that it has benefited him. He tells her so, and his mother confirms this, that some of his fear of school children has diminished. He is beginning to be able to think of himself as possibly grown up someday.
With all this the attachment to the analysis and to Mrs Klein in the transference is becoming very manifest. It is true that she continues her mode of interpreting, rather unlike her general technique, continually referring to Mummy and Daddy and Paul. When she does that quite a lot she meets strong obstacles in him, indicating that he would much rather deal with the transference, about Mrs Klein and Mr Klein and her son and grandson, about what is happening in the war, to a