The analytic encounter in therapeutic mediation devices, at the limits of an analysis

Therapeutic mediations in institutional practices fall within psychoanalytic psychotherapy when they take into account transference and psychic associativity at the very foundation of the analytic method. Based on the clinical experience of infantile psychosis, this article questions the specific terms of symbolization processes that unfold, in particular from the consideration of sensorimotor associativity.

Sensorimotor associativity; metapsychology of therapeutic mediations; sensori-motivity; primary symbolization