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In 1954, Pierry Marty and Michel Fain, recent psychoanalysts, presented a report which opened the object-relation to its sensory-motor dimension. Their work was the first psychoanalytic study of what they call “drive motor activity”. From this angle, they envisaged the relations between “external object” and “internal object”, the notion of distance, and discussed different notions participating in the constitution of the ego such as internalization and intellectualization.