Sibling Interaction

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsRosemary H. BalsamRosemary H. Balsam is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (London); Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School; Staff Psychiatrist, Student Mental Health and Counseling, Yale University; and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.NotesThese two concepts, the depressive position and the genital stage, however, when studied closely, are not all that far from each other, partly because of Freud's and Klein's agreements about some kind of oedipal situation in internal life, and maturing capabilities of accessing preferably higher and less desirably lower levels of psychic integration (but for a good, detailed consideration, see Ellman 2010).Mini-lecture: "Dr Juliet Mitchell on Siblings and Hysteria," UCL, May 26, 2010.Transferentially here, I was moving back and forth in the roles of each sister, as well as occupying maternal space (where the "Law of the Mother" fits in).