The author tells the stories of the inception of mind that is developed in the work of five analytic theorists whom he sees as central to the evolution of a new and fertile form of psychoanalytic thinking and practice: Freud, Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, and Bion. The conception of mind presented by each of these authors moves from that of an apparatus for thinking (in the work of Freud, Klein, and Fairbairn) to that of a process located in the very act of experiencing (in the work of Winnicott and Bion). The work of each of the theorists constitutes a radical transformation of thinking relative to those who have preceded and those who follow him or her. The author, in telling the “stories” of the emergence of mind and the concept of mind according to each of these theorists, offers not only his own narrative structure and clarifications of their work, but also his own interpretations and extensions of their ideas.

作者讲述了在五位分析理论家的著作中发展起来的心智起源的故事，他认为这五位分析理论家是一种新的、丰富的精神分析思维和实践形式的发展的核心：弗洛伊德、克莱因、费尔贝恩、温尼科特和比昂. 这些作者中的每一位提出的心智概念都从一种思维装置的概念（在弗洛伊德、克莱因和费尔贝恩的著作中）转变为位于体验行为中的过程的概念（在温尼科特和比昂的著作中）。 ）。每一位理论家的工作都构成了相对于他或她之前的人和跟随他或她的人的思维方式的根本转变。作者在根据这些理论家中的每一个讲述心智出现和心智概念的“故事”时，