ABSTRACT
Autistoid mechanisms begin to form that are very similar to autistic ones: second skin formations, including addictive and perverse excitations, autistic objects and shapes, psychosomatic capsules. Tustin investigated these dynamics and arrived at her important results, which today belong to the canon of analytic thought. The earlier encapsulations are formed, the more precarious the inner emotional situation and further development become. The "breast", which is conceptualized as a mother–child encounter, becomes the central point of autistic and autistoid events. The primal phantasy, or the conception of the breast, need not be basically damaged, as is the case with autistic and autistoid encapsulations. The objectal remnants that exist even in the most severe autistic formations have retreated to a corner of the psyche. There have to be very unfavourable constitutional and/or objectal conditions to induce the formation of severe autistic and autistoid states.
