ABSTRACT
The purpose in this work is to examine what tools the analyst has available to work with neurotic patients who operate with primordial mental states. It develops ideas about the functioning of the primordial mind and investigate the type of language that the analyst must use to communicate with unintegrated states, with the autistic barriers of these patients, in order to favor some contact. This language would be the language of emotion, a language analogous to the model of the motherese prosody of the mother with her baby. This kind of language would be an experience that relates to the notion of transformations in O. The mind contains unborn embryonic remnants that have not been transformed and that remain present even in neurotic individuals’ minds throughout their lives. Bion’s emphasis on the primordial mind favors the individual to recognize these manifestations without representation, navigate through them, and eventually transform them into some meaning, enabling them to be thought and named.
