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AS DISCUSSED IN PARTS I AND II (This Journal 26:257–290, 26:377–407), the concepts of nothingness, meaninglessness, and chaos are informed by a deficit theory, a theory of "absence" (both primary and secondary ["foreclosure", in the sense of Lacan, 1977]) in addition to a conflict theory. It is my thesis that conflicts are to be solved through resolution (dialectics) and that deficits are to be solved through self- and interactional regulation1. Further, regulation (or modulation) relates to the most basic physiological aspects of the internal milieu and of behavior with others and is ultimately based on elemental somato-psychic and psycho-somatic signals (rather than on signs or symbols). It is the "language" of primary narcissism and of symbiosis and occupies a space midway between need and desire (Lacan, 1966). The "language" of regulation is contrasted with that of symbolic function and its forerunners. Regulation