ABSTRACT
The translations from one configuration to another, and the activation or the emergence of new configurations, rely on a de-differentiation movement allowing accession to “unformed” states, which is the essence of transitional processes. In this model, transitional phenomena have an “interstitial” function in the translation from one configuration to another; that is, they form a network of transitional operations, intervening as an intermediate in leaps of internal/external differentiation levels. Again, does this process have some link with Bion’s “becoming O”? Remaining in Winnicott’s perspective, this can be considered either the “formless” that characterizes the states of “rest” or belonging to the field of “playing”, which Roussillon has developed as a new paradigm for psychic transformation processes.
