Margot Waddell's 'Inside Lives'

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1. “Very simply, with the nipple in the mouth, surrounded by loving arms, lulled by the sound of the mother’s voice and by the gentle attention of her eyes and mind, the baby will have an experience of being loved” (Waddell, 2002, p.29). Using this quote and other passages from chapter three Infancy: Containment and Reverie do you think “being loved” is important to childhood and development? What are your ideas about this?

2. In chapter three in Margot Waddell’s book Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality two concepts are introduced containment and reverie both developed by Bion. Focusing on containment in particular, why do you think it is important to discuss containment with the “alpha function” (p.37) and how

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