Jaeger, Philippe <br/><br/>
Excitation and Death Drives in the Work of Michel Fain 

 -  2008.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The author feels that the psychoanalytical thought of Michel Fain is fundamental in studying psychosomatics in the child: in early insomnia as seen in the infant, the death drive comes into action until the excitation is extinguished. Faced with the impossibility of experiencing passive and hallucinatory satisfaction due to an insufficient structuring of the double return, the premature ego opposes the behavioral discharge, going back to a calm state. Winnicott, with his notion of the false self, accords the same importance to the premature organisations of the ego.