Quattro parole fondamentali per la vita della mente

Abstract

The article proposes a broad reflection around four words which are crucial for psychiatric and psychological research: conscious memory, non-conscious memory, separation and transformation and the way these concepts differ from and relate to each other. Among the themes developed is the passage from sleep-wakefulness and wakefulness-sleep, the distinction between the disappearance fantasy and the annulment drive and the recreation of the preverbal dimension of the first year of life.