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Journeys in Psychoanalysis: the Selected Works of Elizabeth Spillius Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 Journeys in Psychoanalysis Spanning six decades, this collection, Journeys in Psychoanalysis: The selected works of Elizabeth Spillius, traces the arc of her career from anthropology and entering psychoanalysis ‘almost by accident’, to becoming one of her generation’s leading scholars of Melanie Klein. Born in 1924 in Ontario, Canada, Elizabeth arrived at the London School of Economics for postgraduate studies in the 1950s and soon embarked on a ground- breaking study of family life in the East End of London that produced a PhD and her fi rst book, Family and Social Network, under her maiden name Elizabeth Bott. Published by the Tavistock Institute in 1957, it remains one of the most infl uential works published on the sociology of the family. These papers are a testament to the luminous intellect and understated compassion that Elizabeth has always brought to her work. They vividly map not just the evolution of Elizabeth’s career but the development of Melanie Klein’s thought, often drawing in compelling fashion on the writer’s own experiences with her patients. Each is written with the clarity and concision that makes diffi cult concepts eminently comprehensible to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychother- apists and laymen alike. Elizabeth Spillius studied general psychology at the University of Toronto (1945), social anthropology at the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (1945–1957) and psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysi s in London (1956 to the present). She is esteemed for her clinical work and her teaching, and has published a wealth of books and Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 papers. Her work remains profoundly infl uential on how psychoanalysts of today approach post-Kleinian thinking. Among her long list of achievements, Elizabeth was general editor of the Routledge series, the New Library of Psychoanalysis, from 1988 to 1998, and was editor of Melanie Klein Today, Volumes 1 and 2. In 2010 she was made a Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. World Library of Mental Health series The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their individual fi elds. Each author has compiled a career-long collection of what they consider to be their fi nest pieces: extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical and practical contribu- tions, and salient research fi ndings. For the fi rst time ever the work of each contributor is presented in a single volume so readers can follow the themes and progress of their work and identify the contributions made to, and the development of, the fi elds themselves. Each book in the series features a specially written introduction by the contributor giving an overview of their career, contextualizing their selection within the development of the fi eld, and showing how their own thinking developed over time. Rationality and Pluralism – The selected works of Windy Dryden By Windy Dryden The Price of Love – The selected works of Colin Murray Parkes By Colin Murray Parkes Attachments: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis – The selected works of Jeremy Holmes Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 By Jeremy Holmes Passions, Persons, Psychotherapy, Politics – The selected works of Andrew Samuels By Andrew Samuels Towards a Radical Redefi nition of Psychology – The selected works of Miller Mair Edited by David Winter and Nick Reed Journeys in Psychoanalysis The selected works of Elizabeth Spillius Elizabeth Spillius Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 First published 2015 by Routledge 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 2FA and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 Elizabeth Spillius The right of Elizabeth Spillius to be identifi ed as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copy- right, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Spillius, Elizabeth Bott, 1924- , author. [Works. Selections] Journeys in psychoanalysis : the selected works of Elizabeth Spillius / Elizabeth Spillius. p. ; cm. -- (World library of mental health) Includes bibliographical references. I. Title. II. Series: World library of mental health series. [DNLM: 1. Klein, Melanie. 2. Psychoanalysis--Collected Works. 3. Psychoanalytic Theory--Collected Works. WM 460] RC504 616.89Ј17--dc23 2014038112 ISBN: 978-0-415-83517-6 (hbk) Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 ISBN: 978-1-315-72029-6 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by Saxon Graphics Ltd, Derby CONTENTS Introduction 1 1 Conjugal roles and social networks 3 2 Clinical refl ections on the negative therapeutic reaction 25 3 Clinical experiences of projective identifi cation 33 4 Varieties of envious experience 45 5 Kleinian thought: overview and personal view 62 6 On formulating clinical fact to a patient 90 7 Developments in Kleinian technique 101 8 Freud and Klein on the concept of phantasy 113 9 Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: learning to understand oneself in contrast to being understood by another 128 10 On becoming a British psychoanalyst 134 11 Recognition of separateness and otherness 153 Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 12 Melitta and her mother 168 13 Ten drawings by one of Melanie Klein’s child patients 179 Index 183 7KLVSDJHLQWHQWLRQDOO\OHIWEODQN Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 INTRODUCTION People remind me occasionally that I come from a Canadian academic family, which is true but slightly misleading. My father, Edward Alexander Bott, came from a very poor family and when he fi nished high school (Canadian for secondary school) he worked hard for four years and saved all the money he could before applying to university – although whether to study psychology or philosophy, I’m not sure. My mother’s family was rather different. Her father was the headmaster of a secondary school in a small Ontario town and a man whom everyone loved, myself included. My grandmother was intensely ‘proper’, very religious and very keen on looking for sin, especially in me (I heard that my father eventually told her to stop this). She did not let my mother go to university – she thought the institution was immoral – and so my mother spent some years touring small Ontario towns teaching women how to de-bone chickens before cooking them. Eventually my mother persuaded her father to allow her to go to university, where she met my father. In the fi nal examinations she stood fi rst – and won the Governor General’s gold medal – and my father stood second. He didn’t seem to mind, I was told. I was the youngest of three girls, and the only one who enjoyed school, probably because I did quite well. By the time I was ready to go to the University of Toronto the war had begun, and there were more young men at university than usual. I think this was because one did not have to join the army if one went to university. Most of them – especially Erving Goffman, who was in my year – were very intelligent and left wing. I learned a lot from Erving and his friends at university. We were taught by a clever young man from Chicago called Raymond Birdwhistell and I felt I was being rescued at last from psychology – my subject. I thought sociology was probably just as bad. Both seemed to be based on questionnaires – ‘Are you happy? Answer 1–5. Unhappy? Sometimes unhappy?’ etc. I thought it was just silly. Erving and his friends got me started on Durkheim, Marx, Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski. At the end of university I won a scholarship and went with Erving to the University of Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 Chicago. He went to the Sociology Department, I went to something called Human Development, which threatened to be as bad as the questionnaires. Then more or less by accident I found myself getting to know a working-class family and writing about them for Allison Davis, who was completing his PhD and was to become an important fi gure in psychology and anthropology. This was a man I liked a lot. He knew a great deal about how people lived and thought, and he encouraged me to write. I said fi ne, but next time I didn’t want to study a family without their knowing it – I felt it was all wrong, doing it secretly, and he agreed, much to my relief. 2 Introduction By this time I had decided that I wanted to study anthropology, but found that most of the anthropology professors were boring and unimaginative – how judgemental I was! But there was one I really liked, and he took me aside for a quiet bit of advice, saying that I was never going to like American anthropology and so I should give it up and go to England where everybody thought the way I did.
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