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On the basis of the contributions of the Kleinian school and in particular of the work of Bion, this paper describes some lines of research, still in progress, aimed at developing a psychoanalytic model of cognitive processes and at showing psychoanalysis to be a theory of learning. Specifically, the paper discusses the representational value of the internal objects in a process of primary learning and their part in the genesis and development of perceptual processes.