[Tact-pulsion, a metapsychological consequence of knowledge about touch]. / Tact-pulsion, une conséquence métapsychologique des connaissances sur le toucher.

ABSTRACT

The majority of psychoanalysts today admit that the body and the mind are not separate, but are on the contrary deeply intertwined with each other. Thus, it is possible to consider the psychic life as stemming from the vital necessity to process sensory information. Based on the recent discoveries of embryology, it becomes possible to rethink the consequences of the first inscriptions in the construction of the psyche, in connection with sensory experiences. This new knowledge makes it necessary to revise the metapsychology, making the first impulse appear as "tact-pulsion".