Postscript 3 On Discriminating and not Discriminating Between Affect and Representation *

Prepublished paper for the 41st International Congress of Psychoanalysis, Santiago 1998

It is the instincts, the feelings, that constitute the substance of the soul. Cognition is only its surface, its point of contact with what is outside itself.

C.S.Peirce, Reasoning and the Logic of Things, 1898

It is here in this highly specialized psycho-therapy situation rather than by direct observation of infants that the state of affair that is normal at the theoretical start in infancy can be studied.

D.W.Winnicott, Human Nature, 1988