First year of Life and Memory

Journal title PSICOANALISI
Author/s David Rosenfeld
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/2
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 77-91 File size 63 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSI2025-002006
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This article try to demonstrate how early childhood losses and traumas resurface in adult life and express themselves through the body. A solid theoretical understanding of autistic and psychosomatic processes is crucial when working with this level of disturbance. Detailed attention to the delicate movements of daily sessions, and more specifically, moment-to-moment, is essential when seeking to uncover what is still unknown to the patient. Concrete separations often reveal a repetition of traumas or bodily expressions. The analyst’s creativity in embracing unusual forms of communication (e.g., poetry, songs) should be honored as significant ways of expressing psychic pain.

Keywords: psychosomatics, delusion, hallucination, maternal loss before the age of one year, mother-child indifferentiation, reconstructing the mother through hallucinations.

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David Rosenfeld, Primo anno di vita e memoria in "PSICOANALISI" 2/2025, pp 77-91, DOI: 10.3280/PSI2025-002006