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three moments: pregnancy, passage through the birth canal, and extrauterine life. The conflict develops along two axes: the struggle between the sexes and the struggle of the parents against the child . Father and mother fight for the possession of the son who, in this confrontation, is the bet. This struggle is commanded by two feelings: a feeling of love, that is to say, of striving for integrity, and a feeling of hatred, which seeks opposition and exclusion. The son, on the other hand, seeks to free himself from one parent, and for this he must establish an alliance with the other; the sexual appetite for one or other of the parents is the vehicle, the way in which the alliance - bond - is established. The retentive role tries to take over the son (eternal pregnancy) while the extractive role tries to create a union with the retained son to release him or, in turn, to possess him. The struggle of the sexes acquires in this way the sense of a disjunction: “in order for me to live, you must die”. The relationship of the father to the child is characterized by the paternal anguish of his own infertility and the consequent desire for theft of the son. The relation of the mother to the child is a link in which an attempt is made to procreate and then to retain her product, from which the father should be excluded. The son tries to free himself from the confinement to which the mother condemns him and that causes anguish of death, due to the closure in which he is maintained. The evasion of the maternal prison is equivalent to a matricide and carries the blame of the birth and, correlatively, persecutory anguish in face of the fantasy of a devouring mother or a mother trying to return her product or her child to her uterus. For the son, the father is a liberator from the symbiosis in which the mother tries to maintain him; the father is also a guide and a model to hold himself on the outside. However, the bond with the father is ambivalent since the father desires, along with the liberation of the son, his annexation as a magical way of counteracting the anguish of death. In turn, the child, faced with the primal scene, experiences exclusion and tries, with a policy of alliances, to disband them to achieve his independence from one of the parents or both. Each one of the roles is ambivalent because each action unfolds in the dialectic of the inside and the outside , with each of these positions being a carrier of specific anguish: the inside is security, dependence, and prison, while the outside is freedom but also helplessness and abandonment. Therefore, the behavior of the son and the parents is both love and hate, since each of the protagonists of this drama strives, at the same time, to remain or return to an inside and to be free of the closure which threatens him in an imprisoning interior, with death escorting every movement of this dialectic. IV. D. Norberto Carlos Marucco In his reference to ‘dialectic’ in place of ‘conflict’, Norberto Carlos Marucco builds on Freud, Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Lacan, Laplanche and Green among others. Referring to his clinical experience with borderline patients, Marucco (1997) posits a revision of the psychoanalytic theory of sexuality and representation, based on the dialectic between the sexual drive and the status of the object. The author puts forward the idea of a psychic structure split between disavowal of castration and creation of the virtual object (nonpathological fetish), in
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