ABSTRACT
By analysis of the cases of an adult borderline patient and a child with neurotic inhibitions the author explores both the underlying psychopathological organizations and the patients’ adaptation to the interpretations suggested during the sessions. What stands out in the case of the adult is the inhibition of functions such as the perception of internal and external reality and attention, the attack on the links, suggested by the interpretations, of a disturbed symbolic function. In the case of the child, mental activity is concentrated in highly idealized partial objects that lead to inhibitions in learning. The material is related to what Freud exposes in Inhibition, Symptom and Anxiety, with Melanie Klein’s contributions on the relational value of any function and the parallelism between the qualities of function and the object relation, and it correlates with Bion’s Grid, and what he puts forward in Elements of Psychoanalysis.
