ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author refers to mental growth in connection with the development of potential through the transformation of primitive, proto-emotional, prenatal aspects, and approaches this subject from the perspective of tropisms. The author's hypothesis, interpreting some of Wilfred Bion's ideas and his subsequent developments, is that the encounter with the container object that provides meaning transforms tropisms into emotional links of love, hate, and the disposition to know. From a cellular point of view, there is also the so-called viral tropism, when a type of virus has a highly specific attraction towards a particular cell, determined in part by the surface markers in that cell. The virus develops a specific ability to attack the cells selectively, as well as the host's organs, and often certain cell populations that are found in the organs of the host's body. The author mentions various disastrous consequences: psychotic turbulence and autistic frozen desert.
