ATD: bilocation - as Melanie Klein's part objects

[Glenn Scheper]

I've started a long web surf on Melanie Klein, which would be better
to summarize than forecast, but I wanted to clear my plate of tasks.

Emotions are labile; good rapidly 
changes into bad and vice versa, and there is no recognition of the fact that 
the good and the bad object are the same person. The infant thus lives in a 
world of 'part' objects, in the sense that what would to an outside observer be 
one object is to the infant at least two (good and bad). Further, Klein assumes 
that the first object is a part object, the breast, but in Klein's view this 
'breast' is not just a purveyor of food, a satisfier of instinct; it is the 
source of love, of life itself. She tacitly assumes that in early infancy 
anatomical part-objects are normally perceived and treated as if they were whole 
objects and that whole objects may be treated as if they were parts. Full 
recognition of the identity of objects as wholes and of oneself as a whole in 
her view comes later, in the depressive position.

  -- http://www.melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/ejb2003.htm
     The Melanie Klein Trust: Developments in Kleinian Thought...

Her insight that the baby know: breast, mother, womb, penis, intercourse...
Is exciting! Just imagining how the late-term foetus experiences the penis
during intercourse is revelatory. Long ago, coming on the forehead, solving
for me Rev 14? phrase about the 144000 with lamb, having his father's name
written on their forehead. That is so like the ordinary biological case.

Anyway, the huge good/evil split felt at my first AF is like recognition
of the part-objects: The mind perceiving TWO objects, one good, one evil,
which we later merge together to handle whole objects needed for survival
in the world that colonizes us.

First, aside, doing Klein lead me to some Jungian pages:

The shadow in dreams is often represented by dark figures of the same gender as 
the dreamer.

... lots I failed to clip here... Esp., The shadow is what we do not consciously
accept in ourself.

On the constructive side, the shadow may represent hidden positive influences. 
This has been referred to as "the gold in the shadow." Jung points to the story 
of Moses and Al-Khidr in the 18th Sura (Chapter) of the Koran as an example.

Consequently, irrationality is the male anima shadow

According to Jung the human being deals with the reality of the Shadow in four 
ways: denial, projection, integration and/or transmutation.
  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_psychology
  Analytical psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So my once meditating on an erection, and seeing two figures, one on the
right, white conical robe, headless, arm raised to swear; one on the left,
a "pile" of shapeless darkness in the night outside the patio door; are
like the good-evil part objects.

In a recent dream, I was trying to be amorous to my wife in the kitchen,
when a large black man came down the stairs (stairs to me represent oral
sexuality: a row of teeth). I passed her from right side to left side to
avoid him, but he hunched over a white box, and started filing on it with
a knife, making a awful screech. Then suddenly, he stabbed me in the side
with the knife, making a deep bloodless non-fatal wound. I had thought,
What sort of evil is that man? but clearly he is my shadow, part object
of self that is not acknowledged. The box is no doubt my fervent work on
my freeware, WordsEx, which btw I haven't had many hits on. Who isn't
trying it?

Anyway, the bilocations in ATD might be profitably be read as part-objects!

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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