ABSTRACT
The development of mental imagery it seems tenable to assume that Antonio's body image was beginning to have more consonance with the appearance of his actual body. The possibility of developing relationships with other people is emerging. Emotional attachment becomes established. Emotional and co-operative relationships can begin. Until this takes place, the attempt is made to control these dangerous 'overflows' by various ineffectual means. Antonio had to wait until he was eight years old to begin this important process, a necessary condition for which is the feeling that impulses experienced as dangerous fluids and gases can seem to be received, contained, recycled, regulated and appropriately directed, so that spontaneity is not damaged. Antonio showed that he was realizing that if he were to make a representation of an object, the image he had in his mind had to have some consonance with the external appearance of the object, even though his representation was in a different medium.
