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The desire for stability, which I intend to examine in this panel meeting, is something we are used to taking into consideration when we see it as a need for a static state with regard to separations, losses and changes. Or we see it as an emotional event obstructing evolution, growth and curiosity. I do not intend to discuss this point of view but wish to fill that gap which I feel exists in the conceptualisation and hence in the clinical technique which derives from it. This gap concerns the foundations of the structure of the self, of which stability is an integral part, permitting those movements in life which we define evolutional, transformational and creative, etc. After a day's work, we like to return home, meet the family and friends, find the book we were reading, etc. Others may experience this, on the contrary, as oppressive, occlusive, suffocating and they may continuously seek new sensations and excitement.
But for the moment I would leave this topic aside. I would like to present for discussion those vicissitudes which lead to the formation of the phantasy of the infant as a monster and the importance a feeling of stability has on the evolutional path of the identity and of relations, and how this stability influences them in the direction of truth and/or falsehood.