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In this dense and complex paper, the author tackles the issue of void resulting from the “€˜loss of introjections” understood as the breaking of emotional links between child and parents and its psychic effects. One can probably understand this issue as a disorder of the thinking function, a capacity that if perforated, would let go of the primitive projections of the infant “in the void,” or would contain them within the “body,” skin-to-skin, leaving no thought, and being a charge on the body or on the nascent infant’s psyche. Rather than an autistic encapsulation, which is more global, a fragmented system would take over, in which case some organs or some physiological functions would remain overloaded with tensions not thoughts, thereby generating more or less severe psychosomatic disorders and looking forward to be worked through by a psychoanalytic process which will bring it as close as possible to the body and its feeling (examples in the article). The psyche would react by filling in the void with delusional material, including the body, in an attempt to repair an amputated internal world within which the void, a sign of wrenching will set in where the lack should have been. This is borrowed from Bion’s statement about the genesis of a delusion instead of symbolic thinking.