1. See, Matrix. Halal(a) — Lapsus, Notes on Painting 1985–1992, Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 1993 and Matrix et le Voyage à Jérusalem de C.B. (1989), Artist’s Book, 1991.
2. Elements of psychoanalysis in Bion’s terms are functions of the personality which are unknowable while retaining recognized primary and secondary qualities and having sensible, mythical and passional dimensions. See W.R. Bion, Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963) (London: Karnac, 1989), pp. 9–13.
3. In his analysis of the meaning, for the baby, of the ‘transitional object’ in D.W. Winnicott, (1951) Playing and Reality (New York: Basic Books, 1971) as ‘objeu’, Fedida extrapolates the problematics of presence and absence in order to clarify what may be the meaning of the expression presence-absence as connotative of the occurrence or creation of meaning. See P. Fedida, L’Absence (Paris: Gallimard, 1978), pp. 97–195. The ‘objeu’, like Lacan’s objet a, leans on Freud’s analysis of a child’s game with a reel. See Sigmund Freud (1920), ‘Beyond the pleasure principle’, Standard Edition, vol. XVIII (London: Hogarth Press).
4. A pictogram is the representation of the originary psychic space (considered the closest to the body). See P. Aulagnier, La violence de l’interprétation (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1975).
5. We can conceive of this affect as belonging to Bion’s K category. Bion breaks through the tyranny of the love-hate phallic dyad, claiming in principle that there is a third relational possibility towards the object/the Other, which he calls ‘knowing’ (K). The K link, whose earliest manifestation occurs on the level of part-object relationships between mouth and breast (post-natal) is, like other analytic elements in Bion’s thinking, a logical, classifying, formal category (to be filled in with content in the future). See W.R. Bion, Learning from Experience (London: Karnac, 1962). Shareability of affects is suggested by D. Stern in The Interpersonal World of the Infant (New York: Basic Books, 1985).