Víctor Guerra’s thesis

on intersubjectivity and the process of becoming a subject

Abstract

Víctor Guerra's book "Psychic Life of the Baby: Parenting and the Processes of Subjectivation" is the result of many years of study and clinical experience with infants. In this work, the author delves into psychoanalytic concepts and presents his own conceptualizations, as well as a comprehensive bibliographical review that contributes significantly to understanding the metapsychology of the constitution of the psyche, the processes of subjectivation, and psychoanalytic clinical practice with infants. The concepts of intersubjectivity, rhythm, maternal law, tutor object, and false motor self are highlighted, as well as their functions in the process of subjectivation — illustrated in Guerra's "intersubjectivity indicator grid".