ABSTRACT
The central issue of the model I propose – which I develop in the second part of this book – lies in the process of plural differentiations that can be invested by the individual psyche. Psychoanalysis needs, in my opinion, to broaden Freud’s cultural- and time-related model of an “internal” topic facing an “external” reality. Modern psychoanalysis has drawn more and more attention to the un-differentiated parts of the psyche, “unformed” (Winnicott), “ambiguity” (Bleger), “O” (Bion). I refer to the work of Simondon ( L’individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d’information , Grenoble, Ed. Catherine Millon, 2013), who developed an original theory of individuation, conceived as the simultaneous co-emergence, from a pre-individual state, of an individual and his environment, the important point being the idea that this pre-individual state still remains available for further individuation processes. Similarly, I make the assumption that the passing from one configuration to another, as well as the emergence of new configurations, implies a transition to an “unformed” state of the psyche.
