Chance, structure, stress: the birth and development of the human mind-brain
Faber, M.D.
Psychoanalytic Review 80(4): 559-582
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2836 PMID: 8153195 Document Number: 419161
Recent physiological studies of the human mind-brain lend support to the theory of object relations, and in particular to the manner in which the object of the early period enters the infant's dawning psyche to elicit a perdurable pattern of both positive and negative response to stimuli. The psychoanalytic concept of reactivation, and the psychoanalytic view of language as (in part) a substitute for the absent object, are linked with specific cerebral mechanisms to disclose the bodily realities that underlie emotive disturbance.