ABSTRACT
Time and space are different when considered either in the “traumatised” or in the “non-traumatised” part of the personality, although they are always running simultaneously parallel to each other. When the child’s rudimentary ego fails to contain a temporary loss due to low frustration tolerance that loss can become a traumatic or a permanent fact. Space will be narcissistically configured, in the manner described by Freud as “primary narcissism”, where inside and outside coincide; also, the interaction between inner and outer worlds within the dominion of the traumatised part will be established only by means of projective and introjective identifications in the manner described by Melanie Klein. In some ways, pre-conceptual traumas will usually contain elements related to how parents were also traumatised as children. It is common to detect that individuals who have been either sexually or physically abused as children, inflict similar traumas on their own offspring.
