Assuming that every significant history is built from the birth of a body – which might have been libidinously invested – the author discusses the constituent movements of the psyque and its relation to the body. Emphasis is given to the postulate of selfgeneration which says that while the psychical and the somatic spaces are undissociable, psyque will impute to the activity of the sensorial zones the power of generating its own experiences.
The author starts from what the body lets visible in the registers of emotion and in the somatic suffering, in order to understand its role in the construction of the “ latent body”, that is its psychical double.
The “acquisition” of the body by the “I” (Je) is followed step by step in the text. The “historization” of the somatic life can only be made by a biographer: the “I”. However, this “I” (Je) must be able to recognize its own and particular events which marked significantly its life. It is necessary that psyque and body start to relate to each other as separate poles, in order to permit the existence of both the biographer and the biography. Being so, the passage from the sensorial to the relational body is marked. The “I” (Je) may only occupy a body that has got a history. The first version of this history is elaborated by the psyque that takes in this body. This history will contain “an antecipated I” (Je), which refers to the image of the child’s body antecipated by the mother. This permits the child to be inserted into a system of parenthood. Even so, the situation may complicate when an image created by the mother doesn’t correspond to the body with which the child comes to life. As a consequence of this situation, the unbearable conflicts and the mournings that become impossible to be made, are exhaustively discussed: the psychosis, the autism, the psychosomatic manifestations, the polimorfal somatizations.
In the end of the text, the author analyses the consequences of the non-anchorage of the psychical representative that the mother brings of the infans’s body to the reality of the body with which the child is born.
Psycho-analysis; body; hystory; cathexis