Abstract
The idea that our mind is isolated in an inner space, "inside our heads," is deeply rooted in our culture. From the relational perspective in psychoanalysis we maintain, instead, that the mind is not something innate or internal, but is a product of human interaction, within a particular way of life. The metaphysical counterpart of the egocentric perspective is the problem of other minds – how can I be sure of the existence of minds other than my own? We should urgently review the concept of "internal representation", and its derivatives, such as the "internal object", probably also that of "object of the self", internalization and many others. Relational psychoanalysis, within the great variety of existing proposals, puts the origin of the psyche in the group, starting with the family group, departs from the energetic metapsychology but does not accept an exclusively hermeneutic version, but pays special attention to the evolutionary trauma and the attributions and family myths at the origin of the pathology.
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