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The author makes a psychoanalytical elaboration based on a clinical investigation in the case of a child, where she highlights the different psychic consequences that occurred as a result of early separations and losses. It shows how the psychic collapse arising after the absence of the maternal object causes a narcissistic encapsulation which is difficult to access and that functions as a barrier that nullifies or avoids close relationships. It highlights and elaborates the different movements of the analytical process that go from chaos, to the construction of a sound cointainer that involves the analytical duo, to the birth of the first words that served to represent primary depression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In light of the many psychic spaces that arise throughout a therapeutic process, it is up to the psychoanalyst - through countertransference - to address the real conflict as well as the chosen psychic place for the internal drama to unravel. The author favours the dream space and uses it as a model to characterise the quality of the psychic space that arises from the analytical encounter. This space gives rise to points of divergence and points of convergence between the patient and the psychoanalyst's internal worlds. Thus, different types of affection, defence, and anguish come from this connection manifesting themselves in a 'point of urgency' (Baranger, 1993) over which a shared interpretation is possible. It shows how this model for building the analytical space may bring up theoretical and clinical matters at the practice, particularly in difficult cases. It also shows how the psychoanalyst's capacity of reverie may allow for a connection of the missing links in order to reinstate the type of analytical space that can be dreamt by two people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]