ABSTRACT
Pierre Fedida in an article on entities which, from a classical standpoint are not indicated for analysis, and where the problem of absence is fundamental, posits the objeu, which is perhaps akin to the transitional object. This led him to take an interest in the world of boundaries or frontiers. A remarkable illustration of this can be found in the case of one of his patients who had feared going crazy ever since she had started "looking for an inside, everywhere outside". The work of Rene Spitz also deserves consideration. With regard to the development of object-relations, he describes some successive stages and, in particular, a pre-object stage during which the newborn baby is held to live in a state of non-differentiation with its environment. This state precedes a state in which the other, before becoming other, is only a "gestalt".
