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- W. C. M. Scott (1903-1995) was born in Ontario, Canada. He began his psychoanalytic trainin
- g at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis in London in 1931 commencing his analysis wi t
- h Melanie Klein in that year and continuing it until 1933 when he was elected associate mem
- ber of the British Psychoanalytic Society, becoming a full member in 1937. He served as coe
- ditor of the International Journal of P sycho-analysis (1947-48) and as President of the Br
- itish Psychoanalytic Society (1953-1954). Scott then returned to Canada where he became Pre
- sident of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (1955-58) and a founding member of the C anad
- ian Institute of Psychoanalysis. His published works (1924-1995) number over 100; unpublish
- ed discussions and presentations amount to more than another 400. Many of the concepts revi
- sited 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 i
- nstincts" (1954). "Mania and mourning" (1964). "Remembering, sleep and dreams" (1975). "The
- development of the analysands and analysts enthusiasm for the process of psychoanalysis" (1
- 980). "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" up
- on waking, the bad memory may reappear if no external good object appears soon enough to ma
- tch the persistence of the good dream. The bad object's reappearance, or whatever is experi
- enced 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 implic
- ations of this discrimination between oscillation and transformation both in development an
- d 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 wher
- e Dr. Scott had planned to write a long footnote about Matte-Blancos work.]