Controversies in the English publication of Freud's , 1913-1933.

The transition of Freud's into its first English language incarnation as , translated by A.A. Brill, took several years to effect, the process being beset with conceptual, practical, legal, and political obstacles.

Between the basic fault and second skin.

The ideas that are commonly associated with Esther Bick, such as primal skin function, defensive second skin phenomena and adhesive identity, are traditionally seen as affiliated to the larger body of work that constitutes the Kleinian school. I shall argue, however, that Bick's thinking owes a largely communally unrecognised debt to the work of her training analyst, Michael Balint. Beginning with a discussion of Bick's early psychoanalytic formation within the British Psychoanalytic Society, her ideas will be reapproached in the light of her contemporary psychoanalytic milieu, with particular reference to Balint's notions concerning primary object-love, the basic fault and space.