ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores what happens when the process of personalization goes wrong, in particular depersonalization and its relationship to the changing experience of the body. It then discusses catatonia, in which negation concerns motor behavior. The tense, armour-plated body wants nothing to do with reality: oppositiortism. To dis-cover the meaning of a given phenomenon and expose it to the light of day is to initiate a transference relationship. The book examines different forms of communication in the psychoanalytic setting. Self-awareness and the experience of the Other are part of a mobile/'moving' context. Differentiation between subject and object is the starting-point for the concept of number. The pre-linguistic or 'vocal gesture' phase can further our understanding of certain aspects of the behaviour of autistic children, schizophrenics, and schizoid personalities.
