Editorial

This number of the RJP, the second part of volume XII, will continue the subject of this year - „The Archaic”, and marks a turning point in the Journal's history. Matei Georgescu, our Managing Director, appears confident that his “offspring” will manage well enough in the future and passes the managerial task on to Gianina Micu. In his farewell speech he plays a real game with “beads of meaning” to also convey, in this implicit manner, that the analyst must be a talented writer.

Given the chosen theme, The Archaic, Irina Adomnicăi reveals to us how the analyst is oftentimes like a baby listening to his mother's (patient) silent speech, trying to make some sense of what is being communicated. We thus find out how the archaic aspect of the language contains an active component, which is its source and subject.

In the first part of a paper also spanning in the next number of our Journal, Paolo Fonda makes a further integration of Bleger's contribution referring to the most archaic psychic stage/position, glischro-caryc, where the fusion in the mother-baby relationship almost questions the use of the term ‘relationship’ - where two entities are needed. In his paper, the author elaborates how fusion and separation structure themselves like a tandem, leading to the emergence of a veritable ‘psychic breathing’ and a rhythm that accompany the adult throughout life. The second part of the paper is due to be published in the next volume of the RJP.

A true archaeological investigation in Daniela Luca's paper tries to answer the question “How far back does the archaic go?”, this defensive construction against the primordial formless, and against which the adult psyche in its turn defends itself through further constructions.

The dual nature of human psychic is addressed in the next two articles.

Referring to the mother's primacy, Michael Petrou tells us about the ineffable nature of psychic reality, which one can represent only ex-post-factum in the form of a myth, a