ABSTRACT
Starting with some historical and theoretical considerations about psychoanalysis applied to children and adolescents, the author illustrates some considerations about depression with some clinical material. The analyst treated this patient first in childhood, and then again in adolescence. First evaluating and treating it as neurotic in childhood, the defenses appeared to be of a more archaic nature in adolescence. Some psychoanalytical theories about early development are linked with modern theories and research about intersubjectivity.
