ABSTRACT
It is our contention that movements within d significantly contribute to and enable symbolisation proper to develop from the original “matrix of the mind”; and that the development of these symbolising processes is intimately linked to the dawning awareness, initially at a sensory-psychological level, of form in relation to the self, its objects, and the spaces that exist between them. This awareness of form has, we contend, a trajectory based on initial representations of the bodily self, a sense of fusion with the object and separation from it; and, ultimately, representation of the self and its objects as separate entities available for both reflective and anticipatory thought, within a facilitative space-time system. The discrete and idiosyncratic movements, or oscillations, that we mark as d phenomena may be thought of as elemental processes (Bion, 1963; Waelder, 1951)—akin to quanta, or quantum particles at the mental level, fundamental to both individuation and later symbolic representation of that which is external to the self.
