ABSTRACT
The possibility of prenatal affect impacting the potential for creating images of God is reflected through a parallel indication, by which a patient ceases to dream and a caesura is created and the psychoanalyst then dreams that which the patient seems unable to represent, as stated by Bergstein. In relation to prenatal influences on the development of our images of God, Fakhry Davids has contributed a psychoanalytic framework of thinking about a state of internalised racism that is based on John Steiner’s psychoanalytic structure. Interestingly, Bergstein refers to Bion’s conceptualisation of hovering in between the conscious and unconscious, where dreaming is considered as subverting the psychic equilibrium and thus presents as a threat of catastrophe, due to the confusion afforded between the psychotic and non-psychotic aspects of the personality, as described by Bion.
