ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book points out that the somatic and the neurotic functioning very often coexist in psychosomatic patients. It shows that psychosomatic manifestations come from a proper unconscious (that was never conscious) while the psychoneurotic one belongs to the repressed unconscious. The book explains that somatosis would come from primitive traces, sensory, potentially traumatic, pertaining to events that took place before the appearance of language. It addresses some texts of Freud that signal the many ways in which the libido can be distributed between organic maladies and psychic symptoms. The book presents the conception of psychosomatics as an extension of psychoanalysis that constitutes the real core of contemporary psychoanalysis. It details some patients featured are children and, in one case, a baby; others are adults of varying ages, including adolescents.
