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These conceptualizations mark and expand possibilities for clinical practice by asserting that representation is the meta-representation of psychoanalysis, in that it aims to render representable, through language, what is otherwise withdrawn from conscious representation. This is made possible through transference , which is simultaneously a transference onto the word and a transference onto the object . For Green, both clinical experience and theoretical elaboration confront two unrepresentables: that of the drive , rooted in the somatic, and that of thought , which must pass through the filter of language to become perceptible—that is, communicable to oneself and to the other. The drive is a germinal thought , and there undoubtedly exists thought without language . Here we encounter the limits of the knowable. VII. Ab. Piera Aulagnier Aulagnier (2015) considers that the psychic apparatus emerges from the activity of sense organs. In her view, the sensory experience is primarily lived as self-generated, and it subsequently forms a pictogram, making it possible to understand how image thought originates from enquiring into and examining the representation of the thing. She does not write about the body as an object, but as the origin of the subject. So, she discusses the idea of the first inscription which she called pictographic process giving birth to the first representational ‘product’: the pictogram, the Body–world figurability. She argues that the pictographic activity is the main source of the transformation of somatic sensations. VII. B. Latin American contributions Among Latin American authors, there is no consensus regarding the concept of representation; it remains a subject of ongoing debate. However, more agreement tends to be found regarding the clinical approach that different cases would require, depending on the degree of representation and symbolization achieved by the mnemic traces. VII. Ba. Norberto Marucco Elaborating on the very point above, Marucco (2007) outlines a position that differentiates between the represented, the unrepresented, and the unrepresentable . The represented refers to what is linked to the Oedipal conflict; the unrepresented refers to elements related to narcissistic wounds and the ideal as a mental model; and the unrepresentable pertains to impressions produced in the psyche at an early stage, prior to the emergence of language. This last category relates to what Freud described as the buried, understood as traces imprinted upon the psyche but not yet represented. In this line, the author suggests that the analytic task is to ‘approximate the silhouette of representability’ through the construction of a history that
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