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    and recommended paychiatrc consultation, ‘This boy at the age of ‘ine was dealing wilh deprivation belonging fo an ear sige and ‘nt he needed was a pei at home: Hl fay had bec rex United snd ths had geen him anew hop. I found thatthe boy bad ‘een under a compalson tp weal hearing 4 voi chat ordered ist bout the voice ofa wizard At home be Became linn depen: ent entre, apathetic His parents met he nec and alowed’ ‘eel te heen they were read by hs aking a sontanenue Fecovery Alte sear he was able to return to hoardings, and tie reonery has rove ob ang oe “would have been ey to have diverted thie boy fom the path that led to his recovery. He was of course enauare ofthe noterable fonetnes abd empinas tht ly a he back of hile, aod which mace him adopt the wizard im place of 8 more natural pete ‘reapiation ts Inelnes belonged to tine of eparaion om bit family when he was five. Ihe had been thrashed otf the headmaster ‘ad tld him that he eaght fo feel wicked, he would Rave hardened Up and organized 2 fuller Wentication withthe wierd: he would eg hae becape nineeig and dent and eves an nt ‘eel penton. This isa common type of eae in rl psyeiatey, and T ‘oss ey beater ple ae anderen an be Inade wit fr further decals (Winniot, 1958). We cannot hope to cure many of thote who have become delinquent, but we ean hope to understand how to prevent the development ofthe antisocial tendency. We can atleast avoid incrmpng te devopng roy tegen mother apd Alo, applying thee principles tothe ordinary npbringny of chikren we caste the need or some sete in manage, tment where the child's own guiltsense i sll primitive and rude; by limited. prokibitont we give opportunity for tat limited raughtiness which we call heathy, sad which contaas mich of the cis spontaneity. “More than anyone eh it was Freud who paved the way for the pndertanding of aici Behaviour anf ere 8 sequel to en unconscious criminal {nention, and a symptom of falar in child-care. T suggest that inputting forward theve eas and showing how we can tet them and use them Freud has made = conrbtln 0 Socal prycholoy which ean have farenhang bab Wace 2 THE CAPACITY TO BE ALONE? (1958) {Lwsh fo make an examination ofthe capacity of the individual fo be alone, acting on the awumpiion that this capacity is one of theimost important sges of matty in emotional development. Sn almost all our poycho-analye treatments here come ies when the ability to be alone i important tothe patient. Cli lly this taay be sepeeented bya stent phase or silem Silo, and this lence, far from being evidence of reistance, farms Gut to bean achiévment on the part ofthe patient. Per” taps es here tae the patent hasbeen able tobe alone forthe fiex time, Its to this aspect of the tanserence in which the patient i alone in the analytic senion that T wish (0 Graw Sei probab ® ho-analytia i in probably true to say cat in paycho-analyticliterature more hs been witen on the for of Beng sion o the wk to be lone than onthe ably to beslone; als a considerable amount Stwork hat been done on the withdrawn sate, a defensive ‘Srganization implying an expectation of persecution. Te would ce ome hata diction on the ante aspets ofthe capacity to be sone is overdue. In the htcratre thee may be specie temps fo tte the eapacty tobe alone, but Iam not aware of these wish to mae reference wo Freud’ (1914) concept ofthe snevlierdatonp (ck Winaicrt, 19568). Th nd Tay Btn Tih ete of tng nm etn ral atin te neon Seige a niga ney Sein SESE LG io eps ee le Sip ican fie rhe OP Rees Sees, Rs me Bt MS Sher alge tee Ea i a See tnd eee moe THOUS i hy op oe’ snd aot econ yee Sr oe Soares eA amatop ec | and moulded into the idea ofa father. The Klein concept of the {depresve position ean be desribed interme of two-body rela tionships and itt pechaps true to say that a wrosbody relation: ship ian essential feature of the concept. ‘After: thinking in terms of three= and two-body relatonshipe, Dhow natural chat one should go a nage further Back and speak ofa one-body relationship! At fst it would seem that marisa Wwould be te’ one-body relationship, either an early form of Secondary narcisism or primary narcssm ieelt Tam suggesting that this jump from two-body relationships to a one-body elas tionship cannot, in fact, be made without violation of « great eal thar we know througls our analtie work and through direct ‘observation of mothers and infant. Aétully Beng Aloe will be appreciated that actually to be alone is not what 1 am discussing. A person may bein solitary confinement, and yet fot be able to be alone. How greatly he must sufer i beyond Inagntion, However, many Feopl do become abet eniny solitude before they are out of cildboad, and they ray even Value solitude as a most presiows poression, ‘The capacity to be alone is either a highly sophisticated phenomenon, one that may ative in a person's development ‘fer the establishment of three-body relationships, or ele its Phenomenon of early life which deserves special dy beeause it {5 the foundation on which sophisticated alonenes f bul Perales “The main point of this contribution can now be sated, Ale though many! types of experience goto the establishment of the capacity to be done, there i one that io bau, and vathout = tyobe alone does not come about at nln ond mal ch nto fas the beara he capaci wo be alone bs paca Wig the experience ot bamng ose White TomneORe cacTe peer FHiere is implied rather special type of telationhip, that beta thet cal cl wh ln ade eter (or motheraubste who i in fact relay present even if repre ‘ented for the moment by a ot or pram or the geneal atmo Sphere of the immediate environment L would ike to suggest name for this petal type of relationship. ‘Personally Tike to ie the term aurdatedns, which i one venient in that it contrasts rather Clearly with the word id= ‘latnsip, which a recuring complication in what tight be ‘THE CAPACITY TO BE ALONE (1958) o called ego life, Ego-relatedness refers to the relationship berween fo people, one of whom at any rates alone; perhaps both are lone, yt the presence ofeach is important tothe oer. T cone Sider that if one compares the meaning of the word “ike! with, that of the word love one can see that king ia matter of feitedues, wheres lving i more a mater of -elatonships tithe ene o in sublinated form as ‘Before developing there ewo ideas in my own way I with to remind you how ic would be posible to refer tothe eapacty to be alone in wel-worn psychoranalyic phraseology. Mr Inecounse tis perhaps hr to vy dat ater satisfactory intercourse each anes alone snd is contented tobe alone Being able to exjoy Being alone along with another person who js ao alone isin itelf an experience of health, Tack of id-ension may produce nat, but ine integration of penalty enable te ated SHErg obtaae, Cat tosay solide Tat relate Sahay ae all he Prinal Sexe could be said that an individual's capacity to be alone depends on his ability to deal with the felines aroused by the primal scene, In the primal scene an excited elaionship between the parent i perceived or imagined, and this is accepted by the child who fs Healthy and who is able to master the hate and (0 he in he es of masturbation In martin he Sok, forthe concious and unconscious fantasy is eee clans Gil who the rd penon at Three body or tiangsla relationship. To beable toe alone in thee ceanante imple a may of rote development, ital potency or the coresponding female accepanees it Finplies fusion af the aggresive and erotie impulses and ideas, fand it implies tolerance of ambivalene; along with all thit there woul naturally bea capacity onthe part ofthe individual to ideniy with each of the parent ‘Astatement in these ora terms could ecome almost inne itely complex, because the capacity to be alone {3 60 nearly tynonymous with emotional matuet. Goud Intel Objet Twill sw atempt to wie another language, one that derives fiom’ the work of Mlanie Risin, The eapsciy to be alone | 2 ‘THE MATURATIONAL PROCESSES depends on the extence of end oben the eye eaty ofthe indisdeak fssood itera! Bee or pot othe god {luenalrelaonships are well enough set op and defended for the individ (at any rte forthe ume beg) to fel conden ‘Bout the pest Sth fre: Thm patho he ine ‘ul toh or her internal object slong with Confidence in rd fo interalrlaontip, provides ofa a sufitency ef ining ao that cmporaiy eof abelg able oven contented ern ‘nh aces of etrnal iets and smu, Marty a the ‘xpacty to be lone ples thatthe individual has bad the ‘hance throogh good-enough mothering fo bald up abel in benign environment. Tis beets bul up through repetition Tanttatory ional graeations, Tn this language one inde one cerrng to an cares tage ip the individuals development than that at which the cased ‘Gesipur complex bods sway, Nevertheless a considerable degree ‘tego maturity s being trtimed: The integration ofthe n= dla nto aut aout, herve there would be no tegen ‘aking reference to the inde tnd the outside Orin giving spesienne he antay af tedennegase te iEeze mast be a relative eno fom pescttory ana. In Drntve terms the god internal objects ar in the india s Foal nes wl and se ale for pjecton a 8 To be Alone in ox Inmate Sate “The question which wil be aed at this point this: Can 9

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