Object and Temporal-spatial Transpositions

Abstract

This report describes a process named “objectal transposition”. This process constitutes an unconscious defense by which a person evidences an object relationship that hides a primitive object relation conflict. The transposition occurs by the impossibility to handle the original object, to which he stays strongly attached and incapable to modify the ways of treatment, or the relation. The clinical material belongs to a patient with an homosexual behaviour that expresses his main conflict: he has internalysed an unfeeding and partly destroyed breast that makes him feel mouth to devour and crush ah what he values and wishes to own. In this way he only incorporates what he cannibalistically destroys, and as a consecuence, encapsulated and half destroyed objects isolated between them constitutes his internal world. To analyse is to consumate his cannibalism, and, that„s why he cannot do it: to analyse is being mouth to devour and his analist breast to destroy: The transpositions originate in the difficulties in handling the primary object, and consists On: a) Adherence to the primary object; this object is an empty breast half destroyed by his oral voracity. b) Absence of secundary processes (dissociation, introjection, projection and projective identification) which would allow to manage the partial aspects of the primary object. c) Substitution by transposition of the secundary processes that origine the secundary objects.