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Bleger's greatest contribution to psychoanalysis has been the study of a primitive undifferentiated state characterizing early object relations. At the beginning of psychic development, the primitive undifferentiated state corresponds to a structure in which autism and symbiosis co-exist. The condition of the constitution of the subject's identity as well as the relation with reality is separation and differentiation from the object.