ABSTRACT
The little human being comes into the world with trust. If this trust is betrayed, the enigmatic messages coming from the adult world that has turned its back on the interpellation of this new face will not be metabolised. R. Roussillon has defined subjective appropriation as the little human being’s acquired capacity to experience himself as a subject. According to Jean Laplanche, in inaugurating the analysis, the analyst establishes the conditions for eliciting two sorts of transference: the “filled-in” transference and the “hollowed-out” transference. Matricial space, a term akin to the one employed by B. Lichtenberg-Ettinger, originates in the parent and is “required” by the human neonate right at the beginning of his life as an ethical manifestation understood as responsibility for the other. Matricial space is to do with the mother, with the father, and with the adult world, occupying a position of ethical asymmetry in relation to the child. The matricial space transference is a non-linear transference.
