Rien ne se perd, tout se transforme?

Abstract

This commentary on Bernard Golse's article supports, as does the author, a dilation and a contraction of time, the successive moments of differed action. The psychic object is built and adjusted with each movement and it reorganises the preceding stages. A criticism is proposed concerning developmental mourning as a syncretic concept and it is interesting from several points of view, but it puts the accent on the preceding stages although each level achieved will color, infiltrate and transform that which came before because of the following movement.