ABSTRACT

In line with the importance of the mother's - or more broadly speaking, the first significant others in the life of the small child - ability to perform reverie, W. R. Bion also points out the crucial role of the therapist's reverie. Translated to Ken Wilber's earliest fulcra, a first inside/outside reality arises for the subject because the raw beta elements are 'premasticated' via mother's reverie. It is the historical merit of the psychoanalytical and later psychodynamic tradition to have thoroughly mapped out the early stages of development. Their accuracy and attention to detail can also be found in the early fulcra, which can, therefore, be easily interpreted from a psychodynamic point of view. The chapter describes deeper into the psychodynamic, early subject development and the digestive processes. It aims to understand some of the psychodynamic processes that take place within the early fulcra.