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Abstract

The author finds transconceptual similarities in the work of Winnicott, Marty and Fain, and maintains that restoring the transitional space of play and symbolisation, an area of rest and non-integration, is one of the principal aims in treating both borderline and somatically ill patients where the preconscious is defective. Some similarities are described “from the maternal function to psychoanalysis” and concern how needs are met, from the function of the therapist as a protective shield to regression as an access to passivity. Operatory thought, compared to the theory of the false self as a defense against psychosis, is implied by a psyche/soma dissociation where hypermentalisation and perception predominate, indicators of an immature ego, reacting to early trauma.

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