Graphic representations in the discovery of the Chauvet cave in the Ardèche region of France indicate that around 40,000 years before the present, Homo sapiens needed a potential space for creativity and creation to be possible. In this article, it is demonstrated that emphasising the symbol formation and representation processes while interpreting the content of these parietal representations, through Winnicott's concept of transitionality and the idea of potential space for play, enables us to see the parallelism between the psychic functioning of the prehistoric and modern creative man. And finally, it is argued that the prehistoric artist witnessed the journey of the drive-related adventure typical of every humanization process.