Objet transitionnel et autres objets d'addiction

Abstract

On the basis of her experience of new-born babies and their parents, the author attempts to specify what it is that, in the newborn's very first relations, enables the development of a hallucinatory potential and processes of transitionality. Referring to the definition and function of the transitional object according to Winnicott, she differentiates it from neoneeds and fetish objects. The creative illusion from the child's point of view requires the mother's identificatory regression to her baby, which for some mothers is made impossible. According to this hypothesis, it is not the too great a presence of the mother that hinders development of the hallucinatory achievement of desire, but a lack of maternal daydreaming following the period of satisfaction. On the basis of her experience of new-born babies and their parents, the author attempts to specify what it is that, in the newborn's very first relations, enables the development of a hallucinatory potential and processes of transitionality. Referring to the definition and function of the transitional object according to Winnicott, she differentiates it from neoneeds and fetish objects. The creative illusion from the child's point of view requires the mother's identificatory regression to her baby, which for some mothers is made impossible. According to this hypothesis, it is not the too great a presence of the mother that hinders development of the hallucinatory achievement of desire, but a lack of maternal day-dreaming following the period of satisfaction. © Presses Universitaires de France.