ABSTRACT
This paper was given to the 4th Conference of the European Federation of Psychoanalysis in Rome, March 1981. It was published in the Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 28 January 1981, under the title of ‘Fantasie difensive precoci e processo psicoanalitico’, and in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (1982) 63: 379–86.
