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meaning of the myth. The fact that this part of the story was inserted into the whole Paradise legend shows that not only the legendary element of the creation of woman must be reversed to be understood (rebirth of the novice and marriage), but that the whole legend is comprehensible only in reversed form . In this respect it approximates to the type of a biographical dream. Thus, the original sequence of events is as follows: departure from Paradise (birth), the Fall (incest and parricide), the removal of the rib (castration), the creation of the woman (marriage and founding of a new family). Of course, the legend does not portray the life of an individual, but that of many generations of primordial history ” (Jones and Abraham 1924, p. 407). Worth noting is that Reik (1960/1973) later developed this theme further and published a book on the same theme. Sandor Ferenczi Ferenczi used Freud's description of psychosexual development as a model to begin an exploration of ego development, one of the examples of which are his attempts to trace the development of symbolic representation and language from their origins in bodily experience. Pursuing the issue of ego development further, Ferenczi (1909) described “introjection” to explain the formation of identity and mental structure, as well as to explain the psychology of transference. According to Joseph Sandler (1987), Ferenczi used the term to refer to all of the processes whereby the ego forms a relationship with the object, thereby including that object within the ego. Later, Freud adopted the term to refer to all the processes involved in setting up the parents in the child's mind; he also referred to these processes as “identification” (Laplanche and Pontalis, 1973, pp. 229-231). The concept of introjection was an early precursor to later considerations regarding the establishment of internal representational world, and the world of internal objects. Ferenczi made the interesting observation that introjection is a powerful aspect of neurotic functioning and contrasted it with the paranoid aspects of projection and psychotic foreclosures. It is an idea that may have been the spur for the development of concepts of projective and introjective identification in Kleinian and object relational thought.
V. FURTHER AND CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE
V. A. Internationally Influential British Object Relations As already Freud has pointed out, there is a blurring between the concepts of representation and symbolization. This ‘blurring’ gains a specific status in British Object
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