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action-prone simple and saturated, to the complex less saturated representations. In the context of the earliest representational links between self and object, specific clinical theorizations also include maternal and paternal mental representations predating the birth of the child, mental representations of pregnancy and the pregnant female body, complex reciprocal influence of the body and representations, and the trauma-specific explorations of the ‘zero process’ parallel representational world. Cognitive-affective dynamic and developmental complexity of psychoanalytic theorizing on representation and representability is often complemented by recent advances from allied fields, which can lead to mutually enriching cross-fertilization. Overall, a considerable conceptual heterodoxy in evolution among the regions and various theoretical perspectives of the psychoanalytic concept of representation perhaps reflects an intense engagement of the broadest spectrum of diverse psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice under diverse developmental and cultural conditions. Amidst the theoretical heterodoxy, interest across regions has converged on developmental and clinical exploration of conditions with deficit or traumatic alteration of representational processes: the non-represented, non-representable, ‘non thought’, pre- represented, and the methodology of thought construction, recovery of representational processes and functioning, and broadening of representational range in psychoanalytic work with patients of a widened range. From the first primordial inscriptions and the first cave paintings at the dawn of humanity, and at the dawn of human life and thought, at the dawn of communication, representation signifies what is essentially and uniquely human in its rich and wide variety.
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