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Abstract
In this paper I have taken as a reference and a starting point the seminal article by Esther Bick on “The experience of the skin in archaic object relations” in order to contextualize my thoughts on the clinical approach of certain transference aspects that suggest stanching, inhibitions or distortions in the most primitive ways of the psychic functioning.
Aiming at illustrating how these theoretical developments have been applied in the practice, clinical material from a child presenting autism symptoms and also from a borderline adult are reported.
In both cases, failures in the introjection of the continent object, with its attendant shortcomings in the acquisition of the concept of internal space, come together with additional loss in the processes of projection, introjection and symbolization.
Likewise, the patient's narrative text cannot be understood as something from which it is possible to extract meaning, but as something to interact with in the construction of a shared sense.