Wittgenstein stated that thought is possible because there is something that can be thought about. A concern of this kind may have originated, some years ago, from some of the most remarkably unique work on the nature and the dynamics of thought, based on the psychoanalytic investigation of the mind. This is the research that produced Armando Ferrari's most recent and very significant book L'Alba del Pensiero [The dawn of thought], the last of a trilogy. This book was preceded by L'Eclissi del Corpo [The eclipse of the body], in which the hypothesis of the concrete original object (COO) was presented, and Adolescenza, la Seconda Sfida [Adolescence, the second challenge], about the upheavals of adolescence when under the pressure of quick, significant and sometimes violent transformations of the area of corporeality: ‘an