Abstract

The author suggests the importance of tracing the theoretical concepts usually used in the clinic back to the original gesturality of a sense-motor nature found both in dreamlike personifications and in the plasticity of craft practices, and which precedes verbalisation. After the so-called linguistic turn, these find adequate recognition in what language philosophers call the grammar of ordinary language. An important function is given to what Bion calls the interceding personifications, which perform an intermediary function of connecting the familiar lexicon (community of translators) and the language of the working group (community of critics), so that the expressive spontaneity of the practitioners of mental frailty is implemented in both spheres of their activity