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Richard returns to playing with the toys for the first time in two months. Mrs Klein has some notes at the end of the session which are of great technical importance. Just to recall the setting: Richard's father is ill and Richard is travelling back and forth between Y where his family is living and X where the analysis is taking place, travelling on the bus. He has started living at the Wilson's, which he does not like. He seems to be managing quite admirably and is rather proud of himself, ‘doing his bit’. In connection with his father's illness, he certainly is trying to spare his family. In that way he contributes to holding the analysis and the family rather separated from one another in his mind, which Mrs Klein seems to realize more fully now and states it quite clearly in one of the notes.
There is some additional technical interference during the week other than the disturbed background setting. The first is the somewhat gratuitous information Mrs Klein gives Richard on Tuesday about his very limited breast feeding and early weaning. This has a terrific impact on him, which she justifies a bit in her notes on the basis of the mother having neglected to give this information, despite Mrs Klein's request. Why she picks this point to give it, and why she thinks it necessary to give it at all is a bit mysterious and she is rather apologetic about it. The second and third sessions of the week are dominated by the consequences of that information which excites a terrific flurry of distrust in Richard, distrust of mothers, of breasts, of Mrs Klein and his mother's collaboration with her. This is worsened by the end of the week because there is to be a conversation between the two adults the following Monday. Richard is terribly anxious that they are going to discuss his future, particularly the future of his schooling. He begs Mrs Klein to advise his mother to have a tutor and not to be sent to school and then he settles for a small school, clearly quite terrified