ABSTRACT

Three main types of anxiety resulting from failure in technique of child care are: unintegration, becoming a feeling of disintegration; lack of relationship of psyche to soma, becoming a sense of depersonalization; also the feeling that the centre of gravity of consciousness transfers from the kernel to the shell, from the individual to the care, the technique. It is normal for the infant to feel anxiety if there is a failure of infant-care technique. There is a state of affairs in which the fear is of a madness, that is to say a fear of a lack of anxiety at regression to an unintegrated state, to absence of a sense of living in the body, etc. The fear is that there will be no anxiety, that is to say, that there will be a regression, from which there may be no return.