ABSTRACT
The primordial mind and possible links with intuition are the focus of inquiry through some clinical vignettes (each one of a patient seen by one of the authors) so as to illustrate and motivate possible conjectures: Could it be that the prenatal sensations do not always reach the possibility of symbolic expression in verbal, preverbal, artistic language, and may then be compulsively repeated? And is it not the intuition that feeds the imaginative conjectures, the analyst’s alpha dream work, the ideograms that inspire interpretation? Would tolerance of chaos and turbulence of a very primitive quality, like what we have experienced since our primordial times, contribute to allow, and enrich “intuitive capacity and intuitive health”? Connecting theory and clinical vignettes, our capacity and training to be able to sustain the inner earthquake and upside-down turmoil in our own and our patients’ primitive experiences seems to be an expressive and fruitful field for intuition and perhaps a precondition for it to emerge.
