Somatization, affect and thought

As a subjective, phenomenological experience, affect also represents, within the framework of Freudian metapsychology, the expression of the energy of the drive. Situated at the heart of drives activity, and in that sense movable and changeable, affect seems to move between/or feed the somato-psychical mechanisms and processes taking place in the main somatization/thought line. One may uphold that these changes, in their extreme symptoms, beyond and within, represent limits of the expression of affect as a subjective experience. The somatization processes, basic depression, as well as autism, seem to arise from early weaknesses in the first alterations of simulations, whose affect is probably one of the initial psychic forms. In continuation, it goes without saying that there is a distinguishing aspect which may result in either a psychosomatic disorganization or in a psychotic process. If autistic defense, just like somatization processes, can be the sign of an early effect of this changing process, one could assume that both autistic defense and defense through somatization could represent an attempt to psychic remedy directed at making the elaboration of the narcissistic bases of the ego and of the psychic functioning possible.