Le tracé des mains: Projection d'un moi corporel et psychique

Abstract

Based on the clinical treatment of young children, the author considers the line of the hands, with regard to seeking the mothers eyes in the mirror, as the projection of a first internal psychic boundary with a bodily anchoring. Lines of the hands attest the internalisation of early connections, the play of intra-bodily identifications and differentiations from the mothers psychised body. This line of the hands signals a subjectivating differentiation between self and other. This work illustrates the idea put forward by F. Coblence, which is based on the developmental process of an ego that forms part of a lengthy task of separation from the mothers body.