The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the universal nature of a depressive constellation. The term, depressive constellation, designates a core organization of opposing instinctual tendencies and their primary object representations. The origin of this nuclear psychic organization is in the bipolarity of the processes connected with alimentation. Since alimentation as a psychic organizer functions through mother-child-mother relationships, "depressive constellation" constitutes a psychodynamic link in the chain of generations.

These generalizations are based upon study of the psychobiology of the female procreative functions and upon the analysis of the transactional processes between mother and infant (symbiosis).