The essay “Psychoanalysis meets quantum physics through the narcissistic spectrum of positions” investigates how a single reality can be approached simultaneously by clinical psychoanalysis and quantum physics, not metaphorically but through structural convergences. At its core lies the Narcissistic Spectrum of Positions, where narcissism is conceived as a primary psychosomatic function regulating coherence and rhythm of experience. Primary psychic organization is described as discontinuous and position-based, in parallel with the quantum description in which particles do not follow trajectories but appear at positions. The distinction between the wave function and |ψ|² corresponds to the distinction between psychic position and phenomenological trace. Protective measurement converges with projective identification as a frame in which reality can emerge. “Collapse” corresponds to psychosomatic positional shifts. Time symmetry allows retroactive rewriting of experience, clinically captured by the Babel Syndrome. Through strict temporal constraints (forward causal-disconnection, in–out/in–in), a criterion of control is formulated for when a time-symmetric description becomes operationally real. The essay concludes with an ontological convergence: in both clinical and quantum domains, reality emerges through thresholds, rhythm, and conditions of stabilization.
Dimitris Seferiadis (Wed,) studied this question.