ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the axes of the framework in the search for elements, and represents the table by the sign I. A state of attention, being receptive to the material the patient is producing, approximates to a pre-conception and therefore the change from attention to preconception is represented by a move from D4 on the Grid to E4. Reforming the model to represent the feelings of the infant, the chapter presents the following version: the infant, filled with painful lumps of faeces, guilt, fears of impending death, chunks of greed, meanness and urine, evacuates these bad objects into the breast that is not there. The infant suffering pangs of hunger and fear that it is dying, wracked by guilt and anxiety, and impelled by greed, messes itself and cries.