ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the main parameters that govern the birth of psychic life. It evokes the aesthetic conflict conceived by Meltzer, and the primordial spaces of the primary maternal sphere (Guignard) and the primary feminine sphere (Klein). It describes the progressive weaving of part and whole object-relations, recalls the importance of the transition from perception to apperception (Winnicott) for the foundations of identity of the human infant and indicates the early fixation points of the most severe psychopathologies which may possibly occur later on.
