Mind's wave

As the heart has a wave that describes his function as well the mind has one. We can use a function that goes up and down on time. This is what an observer can see in himself or in other people.

The only problem is that the wave is not a single and simple one, but it is composite. The wave of the mind is the result of the sum of two waves.

In order to see these two components we need to undertake some work on ourselves.

One of this wave is well describe in many books of literature and psychoanalysis and it is based on the libido.

But there is the other wave that it is still obscure and it is based on the aggression.

If we would like to use a kleinian therminology we can call them schizo-paranoid and depressive position SP – D, but these two elements are not been seen as separate, one is coming before the other one and there is an oscillation.

In my way of thinking these two elements are separated and they interact in the course of life.

This is not just a way of doing therapy, but it can be a diagnostic tool.

When I am in the session I will ask myself how much libido and aggression are present at the same time in me and in the patient, and what are the vicissitude of these elements.

Wrongly we believe that the aggression follow the libido. If I use a model of the vision I can say that the visual rays are coming from the object to hit the eyes and I will be able to see the object.

I can use another model, the visual ray are coming from the eye to hit the object. The same difference is in my theory. I am using a model of the mind that it is the opposite of the current one, but this is a model and not the reality and the advantage to have a model is that I can change the reality.

The model is this: At the beginning of life the libido is at 0 and the aggression towards infinite. With the caring of an adult the baby reduce the aggression toward the external and invest libido outside. At 6 – 8 months the two curves switch places on the plot. The line of the aggression that is on the top is going down in function of time and the line of libido is going up. The reduction of the aggression toward the external allows the child to build the self and the investment of libido from inside to outside allows the formation of the first internal object, as a negative of the real one.

The object gets duplicated , I use to represent it with the sign I, the two of them I I and the interaction of them X, inside the self O.

The individual personality is formed at three years of age and during the rest of his life he will repeat these experiences.

The only way to change that is an analysis.

This is how things should go, but there are infinite possibilities. No self, no objects, just one object, two object without interaction between them, the overlap of the two objects.

What we do in therapy is to tune our wave to the wave of the patient in order to understand and make the possible changes in the state of mind.

As far as Iknow there are just two people that talk about it. Winnicott and Gaddini and it still a mystery for me why no one else is doing that, the only explanation is that there is an institutional resistance and a legacy to the current theory of the mind. This model is based on clinical material and states a discontinuity with the past. Freud is talking about that in the last paper Civilization and its discontent and in a letter to Marie Bonaparte in 1937.

I understand that it is difficult to understand this new way of seeing things, but it is helpful for me in my clinical work with patients.

This are very primitive way of functioning not yet explored but fruitful and interesting.

Psychoanalysis like all the other sciences was born in the third century before Christ during the Ellenistic period in the Mediterranean sea in greek language, and my town in Italy where I am now with three thousand years of history was part of this human adventure.

Roger Bacon in Epistola de secretis operibus, IV in the thirteen century describes as in a phantasy world machines able to move on the sea on the ground and on the air without animals like the one that we use now.