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This is the week following Mrs Klein's return from her nine days in London. It starts on the Tuesday and goes through to include Sunday and is a week that is very sharply divided. In the first session Richard is very persecuted about coming back to X and persecuted also by Mrs Klein. He does not really regain his relationship to her until the next session when he confesses his infidelity or, really, betrayal of her during the break. He had apparently seduced his mother by telling her she was a better analyst than Mrs Klein because she was his mother. Once Mrs Klein has related this to the breast-transference, contact is restored.
In the week before Mrs Klein went away she seemed to be emphasizing castration anxiety and only sporadically recognizing the infantile transference to the breast and the horizontal splitting of the mother into the breast-mummy upstairs and a very sexual and potentially bad and seductive mummy downstairs. This is the material that presents itself immediately in the Tuesday session, where he seems to have externalized that split on to his good mother at home and Mrs Klein as the bad mummy, surrounded or filled with poisonous nettles and toadstool babies. Again he stamps on his rivals and again the phantasy of being poisoned comes out when he gets his sore throat. That theme of the splitting of the mother into the idealized light blue breast-mummy who gives him his shredded wheat and this bad old woman genital spitting yellow stuff now also invades the empire drawings so that it looks like a horrid bird which has black stuff falling out of it. (This is the material Mrs Klein used for her 1945 paper The Oedipus Complex in the Light of Early Anxieties.) When he can not keep the split going, Richard either gets a sore throat or feels that he has poison dripping down inside him. It is instructive to note how different is this confusional and persecuted state from the paranoid