ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud goes on to say that "a precondition for the setting-up of reality-testing is that objects shall have been lost which once brought real satisfaction". Since rediscovery in perceptual reality did not possess the features of re-finding—which requires affect-related processing in order to come to fruition—the little girl was threatened by sudden loss breaking through into her. A two-year-old girl is pointing out to her mother all the people she recognizes in a photograph album: father, mother, sister, grandmother. The first extract involves the conflict between perception and representation, the refusal to re-find the perceived object, and the notion of "also there outside". A young woman patient, in the initial stages of her analysis, reports a strange happening. She was looking through the family photo album, with photographs of her as a child, and taking as much pleasure in so doing as she always did.
