The Neonate is Born Without Psychic Structures
The neonate is born with no
boundaries in its
mind space, i.e., with no
psychic structure. Its mind is just space,
openness with no boundaries, physical or mental. This assumption is consistent with the notion of the
undifferentiated matrix in
object relations theory (Hartmann), with some difference: The
absence of boundaries in the neonatal matrix is usually considered as a state of nondifferentiation, whereas our
perspective sees the matrix as the lack of boundaries.