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This article contains my first thoughts on the theme of transformation and presentation and I have used clinical material in order to channel these ideas into a path of research.
1. Generally speaking we could define transformation as being the combination of all those operations which involve the loss and acquisition of certain attributes and the changelessness of others for any given object. Consequently we will need to create and describe a process that will take both variables and invariables into account. Since one can only take into account what is to be transformed or has transformed, that is to say it notices differences between two terms that are supposed, even if momentarily, to be stable, any definition of the process belongs more to the theoretical-conceptual sphere than to one of experience and acts as an organising concept of experience. Once a transformative process has been conceived, it concerns a) something that is observed; b) the mental function of the observer; c) the relationship between what is observed and the observer. When the problem is more specifically situated