ABSTRACT This theoretical paper takes as its starting point a question posed by Alvarez: ‘how does a sense of a durable object get built up?’. The paper considers one dimension of the earliest processes of post-natal primitive psychic life and organisation, relevant to Alvarez’s question: the formation and development, at a micro level, of an internal sense of duration of object and self, leading to a sense of continuation and continuity; and how over time this in turn forms a foundation for the experience of ‘going on being’ and sense of self. Sander’s concept of ‘organized states of consciousness’ in earliest post-natal life is drawn on to elucidate the prerequisite for the development of a sense of duration. The role and significance of ‘biorhythmicity’ and rhythm in infancy are discussed, in relation to the development of a sense of duration. The development of a sense of duration is in turn linked to the development of a sense of time. Observational material from an Emotional State Assessment of a Looked After infant in foster care, and clinical material from the four times weekly individual psychotherapy of a Looked After two-year-old, are used to illustrate the development of a sense of duration.

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过去的时间，现在的时间，未来的时间：对持续时间感的发展的反思作为持久对象的基础，继续存在和自我意识

摘要 这篇理论论文以阿尔瓦雷斯提出的一个问题为出发点：“耐用物体的感觉是如何建立的？”。本文考虑了出生后原始精神生活和组织的最早过程的一个维度，与阿尔瓦雷斯的问题相关：在微观层面上，客体和自我的内在持续感的形成和发展，导致一种感觉连续性和连续性；以及随着时间的推移，这如何反过来为“继续存在”和自我意识的体验奠定基础。桑德在出生后最早的“有组织的意识状态”概念被用来阐明持续时间感发展的先决条件。讨论了“生物节律性”和节奏在婴儿期的作用和意义，与持续时间感的发展有关。持续时间感的发展反过来又与时间感的发展相关联。来自寄养婴儿的情绪状态评估的观察材料，以及来自两岁儿童每周四次个人心理治疗的临床材料，用于说明持续时间感的发展。