[Maternal representations during pregnancy and early mother-infant interactions]

In this paper we aim to explore how maternal representations during pregnancy influence the early mother-infant interactions and the style of attachment of the baby. Two different cases are presented in order to focus on how maternal representations of herself as a mother and of the future baby influence the early interactions and the style of attachment of the children. It is stressed in one case the particular fixity of the maternal phantasmatic world and in the other the modifiability which can be influenced, in the latter case, by the conscious fantasies and the relationship with her own family and her own child.