The Kleinian School and the Relationship Between Image and Symbolic Function

The Kleinian school had an over dominant relationship of the child's drive body, and it's image based attachment with the mother. And neglected the importance of a broadly speaking a symbolic function to let's say liberate towards individuation. The baby will develop imaginary fixations partial fixations on the mother in some sense he likens the mother famously to a crocodile - her jaws very tightly wrapped around the child. He's saying all of these images of of wholeness basically. Because those are theBasically the images of the mother the mother is the whole body of the mother.