Memory in the makings: the sensory roots of the identity process

The formation of the Ego sustaining a feeling of identity arises from physical and emotional experiences produced by early childhood relationships. These experiences form the growth matrix for the self-becoming process. They are the basis of subjectivity. Psychic life emerges at the dawn of the senses, and it is within these confines that a core identity will affect the becoming. Being psychotic, borderline, narcissistic, or neurotic originates in this crucible, evidently around the fates of the sensorial in the primal relationship. The infant’s experiences within his narcissistic triad determine the evolution of both perceptive and identificatory modes, defining the singularity of the becomings against the background of the universality of human potential.