PRIMAL FANTASIES AND THE SUPEREGO - PHYLOGENESIS

This article sketches the history of the concept of the primary, in the sense of phylogenesis, from Freud onwards and in the psychoanalytic movement. The foundations of the Freudian theory of the subject (the transference in the analytic situation) are examined together with some examples of opposition/resistance to this concept, of which J. Laplanche is currently the most explicit representative.