ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes clinical issues that obstruct the normal process of “mental growth” by hindering the mind’s capacity to reason. Wilfred Bion has extended the metaphor of caesura to include the presence of a threshold that unites/separates different dimensions, like intra and extra-uterine life, night and day, or preconceptual and verbal thoughts. The author explores a kind of resistance common to patients who share the history of significant traumas, genetic or induced, which originated during the preconceptual stage of development. Very often, projected part-objects are changed into faecal destructive elements coming back to attack and destroy internal good interjects. The attempt to recover the mind that has been split and projected together with the traumatic object, during the analytic treatment, could often result in the catastrophic change as a side effect observed when the analysis is relatively successful.
