ABSTRACT
Marion Milner would not refer to early self-other undifferentiation as a "limbo," as M. Mahler sometimes does. In essence, the role of such concepts as fusion or undifferentiation in psychoanalysis must be grappled with and, if possible, elucidated. Milner amplifies a particular vein of psychoanalytic thinking by beginning her investigation of prelogical ways of thinking about creativity by focusing on anality. It is the moment of undifferentiation which Milner emphasizes. In a strict sense, existence and undifferentiation are incompatible. However, differentiation is not incompatible with soft and changing boundaries or a sense of union. Perhaps nowhere is the issue of original undifferentiation more crucial or basic than in trying to envision the early starting point of the sense of self and other. The author wish to quote at length a passage in which Milner gives some hints of what a symbology linking creative omnipotence and body feeling might look like.
