Edna O'Shaughnessy's papers are among the finest in psychoanalytic writing.

Foreword. Introduction. Papers: The Absent Object. Interminably a Patient. A Clinical Study of a Defensive Organisation. A Commemorative Essay on W.R. Bion's Theory of Thinking. Words and Working Through. A 3 ¿ Year Old Boy's Melancholic Identification With an Original Object. The Invisible Oedipus Complex. Seeing With Meaning and Emotion. Can a Liar be Psychoanalysed? Enclaves and Excursions. Psychosis: Not Thinking in a Bizarre World. What is a Clinical Fact? Relating to the Superego. Dreaming and Not Dreaming. A Projective Identification With Frankenstein: Some Questions About Psychic Limits. Whose Bion? Mental Connectedness. Intrusions. Gratitude. Where is Here? When is Now? Reviews. Review of Phyliss Grosskurth, Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work. Review of Herbert Rosenfeld, Impasse and Interpretation. Review of Gérard Bléandonou, Wilfred Bion: his Life and Work 1979-1979. Review of The Dead Mother: the Work of André Green, Edited by Gregorio Kohon. References

Edna O'Shaughnessy is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a training and supervising analyst for adults and children. She is also a supervisor in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic as well as in the Child and Family Department.

Richard Rusbridger is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and an Honorary Reader at University College, London.