ABSTRACT
For Freud, primary development was regulated by drives during the various evolutionary phases-oral, anal, and phallic-according to an essentially autoerotic concept of the child's relationship with the object. Indeed, the associative properties offer many explanations regarding the development of defences in childhood and the general organization of consciousness according to theoretical model. It is undoubtedly interesting, therefore, to attempt to explain how verbal interaction can result in an efficient change in the associative structure of the reticula. It is this structural aspect of the diffusion and reorganization in an association node of the effects of local commutation and the P-I dynamics that seems to be particularly useful in helping to understand the defensive transformations in the secondary reticula. The explanations presented here repropose in a modern version the cathexis displacement so dear to Freud together with a number of hypotheses concerning their dynamic meanings.
