ABSTRACT
The author describes the origin of psychosis as a primary loss of sensual and emotional contact between a child and his/her mother. It results in an absence of a maternal interpretation of the child’s feelings, rather in a violent organization of his/her psychic life. The senseless experience cannot be psychically hosted; it is pain that cancels itself because it cannot really be experienced. A part of a child’s subjectivity survives only in a potential state, as a spontaneous tendency of the cancelled experience to come back. The other part maintains its ability to emotionally and mentally represent reality, although in a deformed way.
The presentation of a clinical case shows how dreams reproduce in their space the void created between the lost and the survived part. Interpretation cannot fill the absence of a subjective truth with its external truth. Only the torn subjectivity can re-weave its fabric with its own material, following pre-symbolic paths. The re-weaving, reflected in the analytic relationship and in the interpretative work, can gain consistent shared existence and produce new living tissue well vascularized by the desire. Beginning from the ex novo birth of its roots the experience can create new symbolic connections and expand.
