ABSTRACT
The mechanism of projective identification enables the infant to deal with primitive emotion and so contributes to the development of thoughts. The interplay between the depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions is also related to the development of thoughts and thinking. The interplay between paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions belong to a stage when the elements can be integrated and the integration represented by verbal statements composed of articulated words. Such statements represent the realization by the nature of their formulation as well as their content. The concentration of β-elements is closer to agglomeration than to integration or coherence: the associated depression and persecution are correspondingly incoherent.
