This volume consists of a series of essays inspired by Freud's paper on Jensen's novel Gradiva - "she who steps along." In the story a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, suffers from delusions but is able to unravel the mysteries of his emotional life and mind with the aid of a woman who does not challenge these delusions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSABOUT THE AUTHORFOREWORD by Neville SymingtonINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE Listening for the emergence of infantile dependencyCHAPTER TWO "A rose by any other name": working analytically in the face of authoritative statementsCHAPTER THREE Some technical implications of Klein's concept of "premature ego development"CHAPTER FOUR Taking the transference: some technical implications from three papers by Wilfred BionCHAPTER FIVE Excogitating Bion's Cogitations: further implications for techniqueCHAPTER SIX The past presented: bodily centered protections in puberty and adolescenceCHAPTER SEVEN "Trying to Enter The Long Black Branches": some technical extensions for the analysis of autistic states in adults from the work of Frances TustinCHAPTER EIGHT Minding the gap between neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understanding of autismCHAPTER NINE Surviving unthinkable trauma: dissociation, delusion, and hallucination in Life of PiREFERENCESINDEX