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- W. C. M. Scott (1903-1995) was born in Ontario, Canada. He began his
- psychoanalytic training at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis in London
- in 1931 commencing his analysis with Melanie Klein in that year and
- continuing it until 1933 when he was elected associate member of the British
- Psychoanalytic Society, becoming a full member in 1937. He served as
- coeditor of the International Journal of Psycho-analysis (1947-48) and as
- President of the British Psychoanalytic Society (1953-1954). Scott then
- returned to Canada where he became President of the Canadian Psychoanalytic
- Society (1955-58) and a founding member of the C
- anadian Institute of
- Psychoanalysis. His published works (1924-1995) number over 100; unpublished
- discussions and presentations amount to more than another 400. Many of the
- concepts revisited in this paper can be found in the following representative
- sample of his writings:
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- "Some embryological, neurological, psychiatric and psychoanalytic
- implications of the body scheme" (1948).
- "A new hypothesis concerning the relationship of libidinal and aggressive
- instincts" (1954).
- "Mania and mourning" (1964).
- "Remembering, sleep and dreams" (1975).
- "The development of the analysands and analysts enthusiasm for the process
- of psychoanalysis" (1980).
- "Narcissism, the body, phantasy, fantasy, internal and external objects and
- the Body Scheme" (1985).
- "Making the best of a sad job" (1987).
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- David Schaffelburg is a member and Secretary of the Canadian Psychoanalytic
- Society. Angela Sheppard is a Training & Supervising Analyst in the Canadian
- Institute of Psychoanalysis.
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- When the dream is good and the good memory of the content of the dream is
- "hallucinated" upon waking, the bad memory may reappear if no external good
- object appears soon enough to match the persistence of the good dream. The
- bad object's reappearance, or whatever is experienced instead of the dream
- becoming real, may seem like a transformation of the good object rather than
- an oscillation between memories of the good and the bad. There are many
- implications of this discrimination between oscillation and transformation
- both in development and during treatment as better words to describe
- oscillation and transformation are not easy to find or invent. Often
- mathematics for some people seems to make it easier. [This is where Dr. Scott
- had planned to write a long footnote about Matte-Blancos work.]
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