ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case example to demonstrate a series of phenomena which are important for the development of understanding of the pre-verbal phenomena linked to elements of the postulated pre-birth and birth experience. With the birth process in physical form, the blood flow is cut off from the mother and the foetus must undergo a rapid shift from a gill-like form of respiration to the use of the lungs. The experience of psychic movement toward psychological birth is attended by what seems to be severe mental pain. The themes revolve around phantasies associated with the prenatal state-hypocrisy with cowardly nondistinction and crisis especially with the experience of impending psychological birth. Criticism employed in a destructive hostile manner can be seen by the moral approach to make the boundary between the inside and outside. The dizziness and disorientation distinguish a level of primitiveness which links to the representation in phantasy of the birth process.
