ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the alterations in psychic development, the different types of suffering they produce or the psychopathological figures they generate. The narcissist-related dimension contains the object-related dimension and vice versa. The psychotic dimension contains the neurotic dimension and vice versa. The container must be firm enough and flexible enough, thanks to the harmonious blend of maternal and paternal functions, to contain the shared emotional experience in the care situation, which often presents itself as a tormented experience. Psychic development is only possible if the mind finds a containing object. All psychopathological processes can be found in normal psychic development, in the vagaries of this development or in disturbing contexts. It can be said that pathologization results partly from an amplification of certain normal processes, but also and above all, for the most part, from the amplification of the destructive aspects of these processes. Pathology distorts normal processes.
