Michael Balint's Word Trail: The 'Ocnophil', the 'Philobat' and Creative Dyads
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In this paper, I discuss how Michael Balint arrived at the concepts of 'ocnophil' and 'philobat', which refer to two kinds of object relations. I look at the correspondence between Balint and the classical scholar David Eichholz. The two crafted these words to... ...