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Drawing on clinical examples of groups of children and adolescents concerning archaic meta-frames, which might better be called infra-frames, I will show that the construction of internal three-dimensional spaces is based on the spatial environment or, to be more precise, on the environmental architecture, which necessarily involves the body, sensoriality and motricity. This level of representation concerns the spatial and architectural projections of the body image, and more particularly their functions of containing and support. The birth of these forms and of the various archaic signifiers takes place in the crucible of early instinctual and emotional exchanges, in which the object plays a transformative role by reflecting back the infant’s communications. Starting from a regression to the proto-mental, psychoanalytical groups revisit the birth of internal spaces by sharing them within the group space. The function of transformation, both of the therapist and the group, makes it possible to take up and consolidate failed background phenomena. What I want to take up in relation to group clinical practice is how form emerges from the protomental.