From Prenatal Fantasy to Collective Life: The Relational Architecture of Existence

This text examines human existence as a relational event already at the prenatal level. It argues that even before birth, the embryo develops within a field of biological, sensory, and emotional interaction with the mother, where early relational traces are formed prior to verbal memory. Within this framework, prenatal communication is approached as a somatopsychic exchange, while fantasy is presented as the first form of organizing and regulating the relationship between self and Other. The text connects these early processes with the concept of projective identification, the theory of containment, and the gradual formation of the sense of existence. At the same time, this theoretical trajectory is situated within the Narcissistic Spectrum of Positions, suggesting that psychic life is organized as a dynamic field of movement among different modes of relating, regulation, and dysregulation. Through clinical material, the text shows that the threat to existence is linked not only to abandonment or frustration, but also to the non-recognition of those aspects of the self that seek to exist within relationship. The sense that “I exist” is thus presented as the outcome of an encounter between biological self-reference, relational experience, and psychic processing.