ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author distinguishes the respective characteristics of bisexuality at the three levels of organization: psychic envelope, part-object relations, and whole-object relations. The more or less split-off parts of the bisexuality of the psychic envelope will be evidenced not as J. Bleger suggests in a static way, but in a much more dynamic fashion as attacks on the setting, the meaning of which will be discovered only by working through the counter transference. A psychotherapist reported a psychotic child's sessions that illustrate transference to the setting of a dehiscent psychic envelope. The temporo-spatial element in the setting is made up of the frequency, regularity, length, and location of the therapy sessions. Jacques Lacan borrowed the legal term foreclosure to describe the complete absence of integration of the paternal function in the child's psychic world; as a result, the child is wholly dependent on the mother in an alienated psychotic relationship.
