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The article is a book review of "Psychoanalytic Supervision" by Nancy McWilliams. The reviewer praises McWilliams for her accessible writing style and extensive knowledge in the field. McWilliams covers various topics related to supervision, including different models and her own approach. She integrates her previous work on psychic development and character structure into her supervisory approach. The book also addresses cultural differences and the importance of the supervisor's role as a mentor. However, the reviewer notes that the book lacks guidance on working with problematic moments and unconscious dynamics in supervision. Overall, the book is seen as a valuable resource for psychodynamically-oriented supervisors. [Extracted from the article]

Playing and becoming in psychoanalysis: Steven H. Cooper, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, NY, 2022, 192pp, £29.99 (paperback edition), ISBN: 9781032207551 (pbk) Cooper himself hints at a more measured assessment of I playfulness i when he admits first that "play shows up through transference-countertransference engagement" (86), and second, that "there is no way for play to exist outside transference-countertransference enactment" (57, 102). Cooper elaborates uncritically on Ogden's distinction between epistemological psychoanalysis (Freud, Klein) and ontological psychoanalysis (Winnicott, Bion). [Extracted from the article]

That psyche and matter should be looked at from the same vantage point is only appropriate as Jung saw them as two different expressions of one and the same substance, in line with the philosophical perspective of dual-aspect monism. The concept of the quintessence is found most prominently in medieval philosophy in reference to the primary substance of matter, which, at its core, was thought to contain an aspect of the divine. Jung refers to the quintessence as a symbol of the unity of the quaternity's hostile elements, or as 'the [circular] matrix of the perfect form into which the square [of the quaternity], as an imperfect form, must be changed'. [Extracted from the article]