ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by relating the phenomena contained in the autistic transformations to certain concepts used by Wilfred Bion, for example, emotional links and beta elements, present in Transformations, as well as to the Grid. It examines the possibility of introducing in Bion's referential the area dominated by sensations and to check the coherence of the autistic transformation proposal with the entire theory of transformations. Frances Tustin Tustin underwent analysis with Bion for fourteen years. In a different way to Bion, Tustin engages in an area in which sensations prevail, the autistic area. In this area, sensations are not mentalised and do not achieve mental representation. Individuals wrapped in autistic states recoil inside a "protective shell", where they remain absorbed in auto-sensual activities through which they become self-sufficient. According to Bion, emotional links permeate any relationship. In defining the characteristics of the phenomena found in the non-existence sphere, Bion considers that these are full of emotional expressions.
