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 wi th 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 P sycho-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 His published works (1924-1995) number over 100; unpublished discussions and presentations amount to more than another 400.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:
"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).
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.
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 betw een 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.]
