Norman J
Int J Psychoanal. 2001 Feb;82(Pt 1):83-100. doi: 10.1516/0020757011600650.
The author argues that objections to involving the infant in a relationship with an analyst have led psychoanalysts to overlook the possibility that the interaction between the infant and the analyst may be able to activate and retrieve those parts of the infant's inner world that have been excluded from containment and be conductive to a vitalisation of the emotional disturbance that can then become worked through in the mother-infant relationship. As long as the infant's ego is weak, the infant and the mother have a unique flexibility that enables them to repair disturbances in their relationship when the emotional container-contained link is (re-)established. Based on the assumptions (1) that a relationship can be established between the infant and the analyst, (2) that the infant has a primordial subjectivity and self as base for intersubjectivity and the search for containment, (3) that the infant has an unique flexibility in changing representations of itself and others that comes to an end as the ego develops, and (4) that the infant is able to process aspects of language, three cases, at the ages of 6, 18 and 20 months, are presented to illustrate what is considered to be a novel approach to work with infants.
作者认为，对于让婴儿与分析师建立关系的反对意见，导致精神分析学家忽视了这样一种可能性，即婴儿与分析师之间的互动可能会激活并找回婴儿内心世界中那些被排除在容纳之外的部分，并有助于激活情绪困扰，然后这种困扰可以在母婴关系中得到解决。只要婴儿的自我很脆弱，婴儿和母亲就有一种独特的灵活性，当情感容纳与被容纳的联系（重新）建立时，这种灵活性使他们能够修复关系中的困扰。基于以下假设：（1）婴儿与分析师之间可以建立关系；（2）婴儿具有原始主体性和自我，作为主体间性和寻求容纳的基础；（3）婴儿在改变对自身和他人的表征方面具有独特的灵活性，这种灵活性随着自我的发展而结束；（4）婴儿能够处理语言的各个方面，本文呈现了三个分别为6个月、18个月和20个月大婴儿的案例，以说明一种被认为是针对婴儿的新颖治疗方法。
