This paper proposes an integrative psychoanalytic and neurobiological model of unconscious communication, arguing that human beings do not survive primarily through conscious thought or verbal language, but through the continuous transmission, reception, encoding, and metabolization of unconscious psychosomatic states within a shared relational field. The central hypothesis is that the unconscious is not primarily a repository of repressed representations, but a distributed biopsychic survival system that initially processes raw bodily, affective, interoceptive, instinctual, and relational information before symbolic thought emerges. These states do not disappear after their transmission. They remain recorded within the organism through somatoneuronal, autonomic, affective, mnemonic, and rhythmic networks, while simultaneously acquiring the capacity to be transmitted to others through the Field. Primary narcissism is redefined as the original force of cohesion that allows the organism to preserve continuity, regulation, and openness to development within relationship. Projective identification is reformulated as the fundamental language of unconscious state transmission, while the Field is described as the living biopsychic architecture within which organisms function as transmitters, receivers, and metabolizers of states in the service of survival, attachment, and continuity of life. The model further integrates autonomic regulation, interoception, predictive coding, implicit memory, chemosignaling, physiological synchrony, right-brain-to-right-brain communication, psychosomatic regulation, and the Babel phenomenon. Babel is conceptualized as a collapse of shared metabolic processing, where communication continues but common symbolic regulation fails. Within this framework, mental health is not defined as the absence of tension, conflict, or unconscious needs, but as the capacity of the organism and the relational field to receive, contain, metabolize, and transform unconscious psychosomatic states, mnemonic traces, and unmet relational needs without collapsing into psychosomatic discharge, rigid defensive positions, or field dysregulation. The Narcissistic Spectrum is finally proposed as the dynamic architecture through which these regulatory states move, stabilize, fail, or reorganize across everyday life, clinical relationships, groups, and culture.
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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69f9894115588823dae18271 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20002273
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