DEVELOPMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS - THE ISAKOWER PHENOMENON AS AN EXAMPLE

A review of the literature, and clinical analytic material suggest tha t the Isakower phenomenon and its variants consist of representations or sense memory traces of the orginal infantile feeding experiences in tegrated with later representations of experiences during the anal and oedipal stages, latency, and even later. With progressive development , memories of earlier experiences are transformed with regard to funct ion, form, content, and meaning.