else faded into the background and he only saw her laugh, her hand on her new partner's arm, and experienced her only as a terrible beautiful thing that was tearing his body apart from the inside. Shortly afterward, a more normal thought process resumes though he feels shaken and very distressed.

We can suggest that a part object has pulled perception entirely within its event horizon, and the dominant platonic generative model seems to have lost all influences on perception during this experience. At that moment, the man does not perceive his ex-partner as a "person" at all, but only as some surface sensory characteristics, distressing interoceptive sensations and an inarticulate sense of persecution.

The key point being made here is that there may already be a pre-existing generative (part-object)extent.

As an example, we could refer to the same man as in the example above, though at an earlier point in his marriage, before the divorce. During dinner, his wife answers a phone call, says it is a work colleague, and steps outside and has a long laughing chat on the phone, leaving the husband to eat alone with their children. The man feels irritated by this, but thinks no more of it. However, he finds he is irritable with a number of his wife's behaviors for the rest of the evening, perceiving a lack of care or consideration in several behaviors. Only after some reflection does he realize that it began with the phone call.

In this instance, it may be that the platonic part model is activated,