Abstract

SCHELLEKES, Alina  and  FRANCOIS, Alain Pierre Alban. Early emotional development and primitive mental states: a brief panorama. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2012, vol.46, n.4, pp. 187-195. ISSN 0486-641X.

This article attempts to focus on early emotional development, during pregnancy as well as primary childhood, as a relevant factor in understanding primitive mental states found in psychoanalytic clinic. The prisms chosen for the understanding of the origins of our mind, in this research, are: the prism of psychoanalytic thinking, based on the clinical experience and the theorization of this experience; the prism of the psychoanalytic interpretations of fetuses and the observation of babies; and, finally, the prism of developmental studies.

Keywords : primitive states of the mind; observation of babies; prenatal; protomental postnatal; action.

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