ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how emotions must be despoiled, destroyed or degraded at birth, and how as a result of this, internal reality remains prevalently at a bi-dimensional level, in which the objects are self-objects, dismantled, mainly sensorial, fetishistic, and totally devoid of parental function. It describes the typical behaviour of our two patients inside the therapy room. These descriptions do not coincide with the detailed notes of one or two sessions, but are a later reconstruction of our patients’ ways of being, moving and behaving which have come together after many hours of observation. Another typical form of behaviour during that first period was the child’s tendency to enter and leave the room in such a way as to eradicate any perception of there being a difference between the waiting room and the corridor, the therapy room and the bathroom.
