AT THE SOURCE OF THE ARCHAIC

Our psychosomatic model considers cenesthesia to be the first of the somatopsychic organizations. In this case, it is more somatoprotopsychic in nature. These archaic stages of functioning are based mainly on interoception of "body signals", ANS activity and a tiny beginning of sensory activity (mouth, pharynx, etc.). They immediately precede the sensori-motor and the articulation of the sensory with representation. We propose to work around these first post-natal moments, on the borders of what PSI calls the alpha period of the psyche.